1 论文标题
Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China
2 作者信息
Y. Jane Zhang
3 出处和链接(比如,NBER working paper No.11000)
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47356/
MPRA Paper No. 47356
4 摘要
Radical communist reforms propelled traditionally secluded Han Chinese
women into the labor force but exempted ethnic minorities. Using an economic
experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination
across three ethnic groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically
significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are significantly
less competitively inclined than Yi men and than Han Chinese women. The
matrilineal Mosuo women are as competitively inclined as the Han Chinese
women. The findings affirm that culture matters for competitive inclination
and suggests the hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender
gap in competitive inclination.