Buehren, Niklas.
Womens Empowerment, Sibling Rivalry, and Competitiveness Evidence from a Lab Experiment and a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda / Niklas Buehren. [electronic resource] : Niklas Buehren. - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016. - 1 online resource (18 p.) - Policy research working papers. World Bank e-Library. .
This study looks at how a community event-adolescent womens 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.
10.1596/1813-9450-7699
Adolescent Health
Anthropology
Culture & Development
Gender
Gender & Development
Health, Nutrition and Population
Womens Empowerment, Sibling Rivalry, and Competitiveness Evidence from a Lab Experiment and a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda / Niklas Buehren. [electronic resource] : Niklas Buehren. - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016. - 1 online resource (18 p.) - Policy research working papers. World Bank e-Library. .
This study looks at how a community event-adolescent womens 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.
10.1596/1813-9450-7699
Adolescent Health
Anthropology
Culture & Development
Gender
Gender & Development
Health, Nutrition and Population