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market participation and health.1 Still, in a large lab experiment conducted with adolescents in Norway, we find a … world; in fact, Norway ranks highest on the UN gender equality index comprising measures of educational attainment, labor …
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data from a lab experiment conducted with a representative sample of adolescents in Norway and high quality register data … status or other family characteristic that may potentially shape competition preferences, including parental equality and …
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Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...
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experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
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experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
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people make trade-offs between fairness and self-interest. To study this we conducted an economic experiment with a …. The participants made two distributive choices in the experiment. The first choice was to distribute money between …
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We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among … change when comparing performance under non-competition with performance under competition. Boys and girls are equally likely … the gender gap in our sample is not due to competition preferences per se. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences …
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