Booth, AlisonFan, ElliotMeng, XinZhang, Dandan2019-10-110013-0133http://hdl.handle.net/1885/173700Our Beijing‐based laboratory experiment investigated gender differences in competitive choices across different birth‐cohorts experiencing – during their crucial developmental‐age – different institutions and social norms. To control for general time trends, we use Taipei counterpart subjects with identical original Confucian traditions. Our findings confirm that exposure to different institutions/norms during crucial developmental‐ages significantly changes individuals’ behaviour. In particular, Beijing females growing up during the communist regime are more competitively inclined than their male counterparts; their female counterparts growing up during the market regime; and Taipei females. For Taipei, there are no statistically significant cohort or gender differences in willingness to compete.application/pdfen-AU© 2018 Royal Economic Society2019-0210.1111/ecoj.125832019-04-21