This study looks at how a community event—adolescent women's economic and social empowerment -- and a family factor -- sibling sex composition—interact in shaping gender differences in preferences for competition. To do so, a lab-in-the-field experiment is conducted using competitive games layered over the randomized rollout of a community program that empowered adolescent girls in Uganda. In contrast with the literature, the study finds no gender...
Vea más
INFORMACIÓN
-
2016/06/07
-
Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
-
WPS7699
-
1
-
1
-
2016/06/07
-
Disclosed
-
Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda
-
gender difference