Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

No wp-2017-90, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females.

Keywords: Competitiveness; Distributional preferences; Gender differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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