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Altruism in individual and joint-giving decisions: What's gender got to do with it?

Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne; Baum, Sandy - In: Feminist Economics 14 (2008) 3, pp. 23-50

This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men, and in paired settings, mixed-sex groups give the...

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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...

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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences...

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

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Deterrence versus intrinsic motivation: Experimental evidence on the determinants of corruptibility

Schulze, Günther G.; Frank, Björn - In: Economics of Governance 4 (2003) 2, pp. 143-160

This paper reports on an experiment of corruption that was conducted in two treatments: one with the possibility of detection and one without. It turns out that monitoring reduces corruption through deterrence; at the same time, it destroys the intrinsic motivation for honesty. Thus the net effect...

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...

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Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006

Elson, Diane - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 35-59

This contribution examines how gender equality features in the World Bank's World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, focusing on its conceptual framework, use of empirical evidence, and policy recommendations. It concludes that despite acknowledging that liberalization and...

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Gender differences in trust and reciprocity in repeated gift exchange games

Chaudhuri, Ananish; Sbai, Erwann - In: New Zealand Economic Papers 45 (2011) 1-2, pp. 81-95

We explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity using the Berg et al. (1995) trust game and the Fehr et al … re-matching of players. In the trust game, contrary to prior studies that report men are more trusting, we find no strong … gender differences in trust, although we corroborate prior findings that women are more reciprocal. In the gift exchange game …

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