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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Booth, Alison; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan
• 署名单位: Australian National University; National Taiwan University; Peking University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12583
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 734-764
• 关键词: educational-attainment; ECONOMICS; origins; TRENDS; REFORM; IMPACT; CHINA; women

摘要

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 institutions/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.