We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition plays chance worth hundreds thousands euros. At several stages competition, contestants face choice between continuing to compete and opting out exchange for comparatively modest prize. When strategic considerations are absent, we observe well-known pattern that women less likel...

As part of its nonprofit mission, ETS conducts and disseminates the results of research to advance quality and equity in education and assessment for the benefit of ETS' constituents and the field ETS Research Memorandums provide limited dissemination of ETS research. Abstract This paper describes research on stereotype threat by my colleagues and me. One aim was to document its effects on oper...