data from a lab experiment conducted with a representative sample of adolescents in Norway and high quality register data … status or other family characteristic that may potentially shape competition preferences, including parental equality and …

experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …

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

We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find … self-select into competition in the verbal task, but boys are significantly more likely to choose to compete in math …, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to preferences for competition per se …