. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment ; children ; teenagers …We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …

interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment …Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women …

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological … but different gender composition. We find that females are as likely as males to take part in the competition and to …

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 …