Women's Empowerment, Sibling Rivalry, and Competitiveness : Evidence from a Lab Experiment and a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda

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...

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Main Authors: Buehren, Niklas, Goldstein, Markus, Leonard, Kenneth, Montalvao, Joao, Vasilaky, Kathryn
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26442870/womens-empowerment-sibling-rivalry-competitiveness-evidence-lab-experiment-randomized-control-trial-uganda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24537