than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al … decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and …Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender …

We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third …