Gender differences in competitive preferences: new cross-country empirical evidence

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-75

  Bönte, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

competitive preferences; cross country study; gender differences; large scale data set

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; GENDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911446679     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.927560     Document Type: Article

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