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

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