Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters
| Autor: | Emma von Essen, Anna Dreber, Eva Ranehill |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Ranehill, Eva |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics
media_common.quotation_subject Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Control (management) 2001 Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Adolescents Altruism 142-005 142-005 Task (project management) Competitiveness Competition (economics) Experiment Risk preferences Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Gender differences Gender gap Risk taking Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Dreber, A, Essen, E V & Ranehill, E 2013, ' Gender and Competition in Adolescence : Task Matters ', Experimental Economics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 154-172 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-013-9361-0 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10683-013-9361-0 |
| Popis: | We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferencesfor competition, altruism and risk. For competitiveness, we explore two different tasks that differ in associated stereotypes. We find no gender difference in competitiveness when comparing performance under competition to that without competition. We further find that boys and girls are equally likely to self-select into competition in a verbal task, but that boys are significantly more likely to choose to compete in a mathematical task. This gender gap diminishes and becomes nonsignificant when we control for actual performance, beliefs about relative performance, and risk preferences, or for beliefs only. Girls are also more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. |
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