We compare two groups of the non-student Korean population - native-born South Koreans (SK) and North Korean refugees (NK) - with contrasting institutional and cultural backgrounds. In our experiment, the subjects play dictator games under three different treatments in which the income source...

We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...