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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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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 |
| Summary: | 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
differences in competitiveness among adolescents, on
average. It also finds no evidence of differences in
competitiveness between girls in treatment and control
communities, on average. However, in line with the
literature, in control communities the study finds that boys
surrounded by sisters are less competitive. Strikingly, this
pattern is reversed in treatment communities, where boys
surrounded by (empowered) sisters are more competitive. |
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