NDLI: The impact of stress on tournament entry

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Buser, Thomas Dreber, Anna Mollerstrom, Johanna
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help explain individual differences in tournament entry. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured as salivary cortisol) to taking part in a mandatory tournament predict individual willingness to participate in a voluntary tournament. We find that competing increases stress levels. This cortisol response does not predict tournament entry for men but is positively and significantly correlated with choosing to enter the tournament for women. In Experiment 2, we exogenously induce physiological stress using the cold-pressor task. We find a positive causal effect of stress on tournament entry for women but no effect for men. Finally, we show that although the effect of stress on tournament entry differs between the genders, stress reactions cannot explain the well-documented gender difference in willingness to compete.
Starting Page	506
Ending Page	530
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13864157
Journal	Experimental Economics
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15736938
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-11-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Competition Gender differences Experiment Cortisol Stress Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods Behavioral/Experimental Economics Microeconomics Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences Operation Research/Decision Theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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