academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures , which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women s cheating behavior is entirely due to …

contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against …Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however …, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may …

experimental design. In contrast to the literature, the results from our experiment imply that the whole gender gap is driven by …. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result …

differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap …We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … beliefs are exogenously aligned by implementing sabotage via strategy method, the gender gap in sabotage choices disappears …

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …