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| Title: | | In bloom: Gender differences in preferences among adolescents  |
| Authors: | | Dreber, Anna von Essen, Emma Ranehill, Eva |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 734 |
| Abstract: | | We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among adolescents in Sweden. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. We find no gender gap in performance change when comparing performance under non-competition with performance under competition. Boys and girls are equally likely to choose to compete in word search, but boys are significantly more likely to choose to compete in math. However, this gender gap diminishes and becomes non significant when we control for relative performance beliefs, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to competition preferences per se. |
| Subjects: | | competitiveness risk preferences altruism adolescents gender differences experiment |
| JEL: | | C91 D03 J16 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, EFI - The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics
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