%0 Report
        %A Sutter, Matthias
%A Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
        %T Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5015
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5015
        %X 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.
        %K teenagers
%K competition
%K experiment
%K gender gap
%K children