In competitive and high-reward domains such as corporate leadership and entrepreneurship, women are not only underrepresented but they are also more likely to drop-out after failure. In this study, we conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the influence of attributing failure to one of...

This study examines the impact of competition loss and attributional feedback on the gender gap in persistence. Since it is difficult to avoid failure in competitive domains, this study investigates the gender differences in the causal effect of losing a competition and receiving attributional...

This paper presents new evidence on the question: Why don’t consumers switch electricity contracts? By conducting a large-scale survey experiment with 3% of the Danish working-age population, I have gathered data on respondents’ factual knowledge of the retail electricity market, their...