Older Sisters and Younger Brothers : The Impact of Siblings on Preference for Competition

Okudaira, Hiroko; Kinari, Yusuke; Mizutani, Noriko; Ohtake, Fumio; Kawaguchi, Akira

Older Sisters and Younger Brothers : The Impact of Siblings on Preference for Competition

Okudaira, Hiroko; Kinari, Yusuke; Mizutani, Noriko et al.

Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers, 2014, 896, 1-27

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タイトル	Older Sisters and Younger Brothers : The Impact of Siblings on Preference for Competition
著者	NRID 1000080550954 1000080550954 著者名 Okudaira, Hiroko
	NRID 1000010509855 1000010509855 著者名 Kinari, Yusuke
	NRID 1000060551075 1000060551075 著者名 Mizutani, Noriko
	NRID 1000050176913 1000050176913 ORCID 0000-0002-8825-7446 0000-0002-8825-7446 researchmap permalink ohtake ohtake Scopus Author ID 6701666319 6701666319 著者名 Ohtake, Fumio
	NRID 1000050257903 1000050257903 著者名 Kawaguchi, Akira
キーワード等	Sibling cmpetition
	Gender gap
	Preference for competition
	Experiment
抄録	Studies in psychology have long argued the possibility that sibling structure, such as birth order and the gender of siblings, shapes one’s feminine and masculine personality traits, such as a preference for competition. In light of recent developments in the economics literature on the gender gap, this implies that familial environment could explain why some women do opt for competition, while the vast majority of women do not and, thus, are underrepresented on the career ladder. By conducting a controlled experiment on Japanese high school students, this study quantifies the impact of sibling structure on one’s preference for competition, and examines whether a long-debated sibling hypothesis in psychology is supported from the viewpoint of experiment al economics. Consistent with the hypothesis, our results reveal that men with older sisters were significantly less likely to enter a competitive environment compared with only sons. This effect is comparable in size to the effect of being female on the decision to compete. Our study also found moderate evidence that women with younger brothers were more likely to compete than only daughters.
出版者	The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
収録物名	Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers
巻(号)	896
ページ	1-27
刊行年月	2014-03
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/27111
関連情報 (references)	URI https://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/static/resources/docs/dp/2014/DP0896.pdf
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	Kinari, Yusuke
	Mizutani, Noriko
	Ohtake, Fumio
	Kawaguchi, Akira
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	Gender gap
	Preference for competition
	Experiment
DCTERMS.abstract	Studies in psychology have long argued the possibility that sibling structure, such as birth order and the gender of siblings, shapes one’s feminine and masculine personality traits, such as a preference for competition. In light of recent developments in the economics literature on the gender gap, this implies that familial environment could explain why some women do opt for competition, while the vast majority of women do not and, thus, are underrepresented on the career ladder. By conducting a controlled experiment on Japanese high school students, this study quantifies the impact of sibling structure on one’s preference for competition, and examines whether a long-debated sibling hypothesis in psychology is supported from the viewpoint of experiment al economics. Consistent with the hypothesis, our results reveal that men with older sisters were significantly less likely to enter a competitive environment compared with only sons. This effect is comparable in size to the effect of being female on the decision to compete. Our study also found moderate evidence that women with younger brothers were more likely to compete than only daughters.
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