Lise Vesterlund is a behavioral and experimental economist, and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.
[7] Her research mainly focuses on charitable giving and gender differences in the labor market.
[11] In her most quoted paper[11] (with Muriel Niederle), "Do Women Shy Away From Competition?
", they examine in a laboratory environment how men and women react differently to competition.
They find that men prefer competition as they tend to be overconfident.