This paper reviews the literature on gender differences in economic experiments. In the
three main sections, we identify robust differences in risk preferences, social (other …

We provide an overview of experimental literature on contests and point out the two main
phenomena observed in most contest experiments:(i) overbidding relative to the standard …

A critical question facing experimental economists is whether behavior inside the laboratory
is a good indicator of behavior outside the laboratory. To address that question, we build a …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males.
We survey the existing experimental literature, finding that significance and magnitude of …

Gneezy [Gneezy, U., 2005. Deception: the role of consequences. American Economic
Review 95, 384–394.] recently showed that lying is costly. Using the same experimental …

Many human behaviors, from mating to food acquisition and aggressiveness, entail some
degree of risk. Testosterone, a steroid hormone, has been implicated in a wide range of …

In this paper, we use the classical twin design to provide estimates of genetic and
environmental influences on experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using …

We can think of no question more fundamental to experimental economics than
understanding whether, and under what circumstances, laboratory results generalize to …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged
9–12 in Colombia and Sweden, two countries differing in gender equality according to …

We use a within-subjects experiment with math and word tasks to show that relative
performance feedback moves high-ability females toward more competitive forms of …