This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence …

overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that … their colleagues, and we find that overconfidence can be either self-serving or self-defeating for the overconfident worker. …

Gender differences in overconfidence are well documented in the empirical literature, but their impact on labor market … a theoretical analysis of how men's relatively higher overconfidence shapes gender differences in the labor market …, overconfidence can be a double-edged sword: while it can lead to higher promotions and wages (serving as a "self-serving bias"), it …

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications … for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …

additional individual characteristics such as subjects' risk attitudes, measures of self-assessment and overconfidence, social … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …

additional individual characteristics such as subjects’ risk attitudes, measures of selfassessment and overconfidence, social … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …

This study investigates the extent to which gender differences in choosing to enter competitive tournaments are due to … women's lower taste for competition or differences in confidence. We examine three types of confidence and find that … ability, this measure eliminates gender differences in winner-take-all tournaments and, when entered with risk measures …

We examine an explanation for differences of self selection into competitive environments between men and women: gender … associated with gender. An indirect test ensures that our quantitative and our sports task are stereotypically male, while for … the verbal task concerning gender performance are absent. Controlling for potential confounds, we find that women self …