people make trade-offs between fairness and self-interest. To study this we conducted an economic experiment with a …. The participants made two distributive choices in the experiment. The first choice was to distribute money between …

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 …