contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … evidence of a positive effect for women. In summary, even though there are some gender differences in the relation between … people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react …

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this … differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to … explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women …

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … outcome. The main result is that women are much more likely than men to stop competing after a loss, which leads to the … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … mechanisms. We find that when choosing to redistribute income as a disinterested observer, women choose higher tax rates than men …

We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing … experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third …

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …