Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … gender gap in Sweden. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences ; children ; gender differences ; experiment …

task and country dependent. -- cooperation ; children ; gender differences ; experiment …

We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among … adolescents in Sweden. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. We find no gender gap in performance … gender gap diminishes and becomes non significant when we control for relative performance beliefs, indicating that some of …

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been … when competing in a race. We here test if there is a gender gap in running among 7-10 year old Swedish children. We also … introduce two female sports, skipping rope and dancing, to see if competitiveness is task dependent. We find no gender …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … gender gap in Sweden …

, whereas our results indicate the opposite gender gap in Sweden. On average, children are more cooperative with boys than with …

We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find … that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. No gender differences are found comparing competitive …. However, this gender gap diminishes and becomes non-significant when we control for performance beliefs relative to others …