@techreport{Sutter2010Gender,
abstract = {We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to enter a tournament than girls across the whole age spectrum considered here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness emerge very early in life. The gap is robust to controlling for gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Matthias Sutter and Daniela R\"{u}tzler},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C91; D03; 330; Competition; gender gap; experiment; children; teenagers; Verhaltens\"{o}konomik; Wettbewerb; Geschlecht; Kinder; Test},
language = {eng},
number = {5015},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Gender differences in competition emerge early in life},
type = {Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36885},
year = {2010}
}
