Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

Background: The sexual and reproductive health of African American women has been
compromised due to multiple experiences of racism, including discriminatory healthcare …

Being able to replicate scientific findings is crucial for scientific progress,,,,,,,,,,,,,–. We
replicate 21 systematically selected experimental studies in the social sciences published in …

Gender differences in competitiveness have been hypothesized as a potential explanation
for gender differences in education and labor market outcomes. We examine the predictive …

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which
agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These …

A significant amount of research has been conducted on diversity “best practices” to
understand whether they help reduce discrimination, increase managerial diversity, and …

One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that
women avoid salary negotiations. By using a natural field experiment that randomizes nearly …

An important line of research using laboratory experiments has provided a new potential
reason for gender imbalances in labour markets: men are more competitively inclined than …

Using an experiment to measure overconfidence and preferences for competitiveness and
risk, this article investigates whether these measures explain gender differences in college …

Gender differences in the willingness to compete have been identified as one important
factor in explaining gender differences in labor markets and within organizations. We …