This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the …

We document gender differences in reactions to failure in the National College Entrance Exam, an extremely high … gender disparity in the tendency to retake has important implications for exam performance, college enrollment, and labor …

This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the …

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …

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. …

studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to … that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …