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

Buehren, Niklas ; Goldstein, Markus ; Leonard, Kenneth ; Montalvao, Joao ; Vasilaky, Kathryn

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: EMPOWERMENT;    CHILD HEALTH;    OLDER SISTERS;    SOCIAL NORMS;    GAYS;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7699
RP-ID  :  WPS7699

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This study looks at how a communityevent—adolescent women's economic and social empowerment --and a family factor -- sibling sex composition—interact inshaping gender differences in preferences for competition.To do so, a lab-in-the-field experiment is conducted usingcompetitive games layered over the randomized rollout of acommunity program that empowered adolescent girls in Uganda.In contrast with the literature, the study finds no genderdifferences in competitiveness among adolescents, onaverage. It also finds no evidence of differences incompetitiveness between girls in treatment and controlcommunities, on average. However, in line with theliterature, in control communities the study finds that boyssurrounded by sisters are less competitive. Strikingly, thispattern is reversed in treatment communities, where boyssurrounded by (empowered) sisters are more competitive.