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 …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden … stereotyping when looking at competitiveness: running, skipping rope, math and word search. We find that boys and girls are equally … gender gap in Sweden. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences ; children ; gender differences ; experiment …

the gender gap in our sample is not due to competition preferences per se. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences …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 …