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dc.contributor.author | Sutter, Matthias | en |
dc.contributor.author | Rützler, Daniela | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-30 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-23T09:34:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-23T09:34:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36885 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x5015 | en |
dc.subject.jel | C91 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D03 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Competition | en |
dc.subject.keyword | gender gap | en |
dc.subject.keyword | experiment | en |
dc.subject.keyword | children | en |
dc.subject.keyword | teenagers | en |
dc.subject.stw | Verhaltensökonomik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wettbewerb | en |
dc.subject.stw | Geschlecht | en |
dc.subject.stw | Kinder | en |
dc.subject.stw | Test | en |
dc.title | Gender differences in competition emerge early in life | - |
dc.type | |aWorking Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 630330956 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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