Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237547 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CERS-IE Working Papers No. CERS-IE WP - 2021/3
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest
Abstract: 
In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by running incentivized experiments in Hungarian classrooms, are linked to an administrative data source on the students' standardized test scores, grades and family background. We find that after taking into account class fixed effects, females are significantly more altruistic (both with classmates and schoolmates), but are less present-biased, less risk tolerant, less trusting, less trustworthy and less competitive than males. At the same time we do not observe significant gender differences in patience, time inconsistency and cooperation at the 5% significance level. We also show that these initial gender differences do not change even if we control for age, family background, cognitive skills and school grades in a regression framework. Moreover, the gender gap also remains in all but one of these preferences even if we control for the other preference domains, suggesting that only risk preferences are confounded by the other preferences, at least as the gender gap in these preferences is concerned.
Subjects: 
adolescents
altruism
competitiveness
cooperation
dictator game
patience
present bias
public goods game
risk preferences
social preferences
time inconsistency
time preferences
trust
trustworthiness
JEL: 
C80
C90
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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