Cooperation and competition are both essential elements of economic life. Here we explore how cooperativeness in a … prisoner’s dilemma is correlated with competitiveness in a sample of 9-12 year old children in Colombia and Sweden. Using two … different measures and four different tasks for competitiveness, we find no consistent relationship between cooperativeness and …

Cooperation and competition are both essential elements of economic life. Here we explore how cooperation in a prisoner …’s dilemma is correlated with competitiveness in a sample of 9-12 year old children in Colombia and Sweden. Using two different … measures and four different tasks for competitiveness, we find no consistent relationship between cooperativeness and …

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …

Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been … competitiveness in children, with the premise that both context and gendered stereotypes regarding the task at hand may influence … competitive behavior. A related field experiment on Israeli children shows that only boys react to competition by running faster …

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …