Abstract
We look at gender differences in competitiveness, risk preferences and altruism among a sample of 824 children and adolescents aged 8 to 16 in Armenia. Exploring four different competition tasks, girls are significantly more competitive in one task when it comes to performance change, and there are no gender differences in the other tasks or in the propensity to choose to compete. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys, and that the latter gap appears around the age of puberty. These results suggest that gender gaps in competitiveness are not always present.