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Age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes
Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
Swedish girls, we investigate the association between pubertal development and grades, educational aspirations and educational … friends mediate this potential correlation. We confirm that earlier maturing girls have lower grades and lower educational … that these differences in grades and aspirations are mediated by risk attitudes, time preferences or priorities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322949
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Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672157
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Public Observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932905
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Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784293
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In bloom: Gender differences in preferences among adolescents
Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - 2011
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 change when comparing performance under non-competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281256
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Dominance and submission: Social status biases economic sanctions
von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - 2011
Social hierarchy is persistent in all almost all societies. Social norms and their enforcement are part of sustaining hierarchical systems. This paper combines social status and norm enforcement, by introducing status in a dictator game with third party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281365
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Outrunning the gender gap: Boys and girls compete equally
Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - 2009
Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been suggested as one possible explanation for why men occupy the majority of top positions in many sectors. In this study we explore competitiveness in children, with the premise that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281405
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Gender and cooperation in children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - 2011
We compare how children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden cooperate in a Prisoner's Dilemma. We introduce a new measurement device for cooperation that can be easily understood by children. There is some evidence of more cooperation in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281444
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Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 83 (2021), pp. --
A recent literature emphasizes that gender differences in the labor market may in part be driven by a gender gap in willingness to compete. However, whereas experiments in this literature typically investigate willingness to compete in private environments, real world competitions often have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505193
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Dominance and submission : social status biases economic sanctions
Essen, Emma von; Ranehill, Eva - 2011 - First version: 2011-01, This version: 2011-04
Social hierarchy is persistent in all almost all societies. Social norms and their enforcement are part of sustaining hierarchical systems. This paper combines social status and norm enforcement, by introducing status in a dictator game with third party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798671