Lise Vesterlund

TL;DR: Men and women of the same ability differ in their selection into a competitive environment as discussed by the authors, and this gender gap in tournament entry is not explained by performance, and factors such as risk and feedback aversion only play a negligible role.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that when altruism is expensive, women are kinder, but when it is cheap, men are more altruistic, whereas women tend to be "equalitarians" who prefer to share evenly.

TL;DR: This article found that women tend to respond less favorably to competition than men and that gender differences in competitiveness tend to result from differences in overconfidence and in attitudes toward competition, and they concluded that what could and should be done to encourage qualified males and females to compete.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the theoretical prediction of private provisions to public goods and actual fundraising behavior and suggest that an announcement strategy may be optimal because it helps reveal the charity's quality, and show that in equilibrium, a high-quality charity receives contributions that exceed those that would result had the quality of the charity been common knowledge.

TL;DR: This paper found that the response to competition differs for men and women, and in the examined environment, gender difference in competitive performance does not reflect the difference in noncompetitive performance, and argued that the competitive pressures associated with test taking may result in performances that do not reflect those of less competitive settings.