Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

Alison Booth, Elliot Fan, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang

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    Abstract

    Our Beijing-based laboratory experiment investigated gender differences in competitive choices across different birth-cohorts experiencing - during their crucial developmental-age - different institutions and social norms. To control for general time trends, we use Taipei counterpart subjects with identical original Confucian traditions. Our findings confirm that exposure to different institu-tions/norms during crucial developmental-ages significantly changes individuals' behaviour. In particular, Beijing females growing up during the communist regime are more competitively inclined than their male counterparts; their female counterparts growing up during the market regime; and Taipei females. For Taipei, there are no statistically significant cohort or gender differences in willingness to compete.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)734-764pp
    JournalThe Economic Journal
    Volume129
    Issue number618
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

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