GENDER DIFFERENCES IN COMPETITION: EVIDENCE FROM A MATRILINEAL AND A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gneezy, Uri; Leonard, Kenneth L.; List, John A.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMETRICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0012-9682
• DOI: 10.3982/ECTA6690
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 1637-1664
• 关键词: heritability; EVOLUTION; BEHAVIOR; CHILDREN; COSTS

摘要

We use a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive environments across two distinct societies: the Maasai in Tanzania and the Khasi in India One Unique aspect Of these Societies is that the Maasai represent a textbook example of a patriarchal society, whereas the Khasi Lire matrilineal Similar to the extant evidence drawn front experiments executed in Western Cultures, Maasai men opt to compete at roughly twice the rate as Maasai women. Interestingly, this result is reversed among the Khasi, where women choose the competitive environment more often than Khasi men, and even choose to compete weakly mole often than Maasai men These results provide insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences ill selecting into competitive environments