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 …

We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender … large-scale data with incentivized choices from 3683 participants from India, Norway and Tanzania, we find a significant …. In Norway we find that lefty men are more competitive than any other group, but women's competitiveness is not related to …