We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …

. Maaser, Paetzel and Traub (Games and Economic Behavior, 2019) conducted an experiment to investigate the effect of such … nominal power differences in the classic Baron-Ferejohn model. This paper re-analyzes the data from that experiment, looking … at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the … is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their …

differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …

In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. …

experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study …The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …

We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … randomly vary receivers' migration background and other attributes, including education, gender, and age. We find that …