TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sutter, Matthias
AU  - Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
        TI  - Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life
        PY  - 2010/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5015
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5015
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - teenagers
KW  - competition
KW  - experiment
KW  - gender gap
KW  - children
        ER  -