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

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select … into tournaments at a lower rate than men. -- Behavioral preferences ; real effort experiment ; gender differences ; gender …

We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among … the gender gap in our sample is not due to competition preferences per se. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences … adolescents in Sweden. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. We find no gender gap in performance …

Studies in psychology have long argued the possibility that sibling structure, such as birth order and the gender of … siblings, shapes one's feminine and masculine personality traits, such as a preference for competition. In light of recent … developments in the economics literature on the gender gap, this implies that familial environment could explain why some women do …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …

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

We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find …, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to preferences for competition per se … that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. No gender differences are found comparing competitive …

Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in …. These results help to explain previous findings on gender differences in performance under competition both in and out of … response to these factors could help to explain the labor-market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate …

related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …

related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …