experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …

We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a behind the veil of ignorance design. This method yields strategies … women do not differ in trust, and that women are slightly more trustworthy. However, men's strategies are bimodal, peaking … at the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium and the Pareto efficient frontier, while women's strategies are single peaked at …

The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off … problem. We report on a field experiment the results of which show that donors who have pledged an amount are indeed more …

experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in …

In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …

debates about foreign aid or the environment. In our experiment, a "sender" receives an informative but noisy signal about the …

for social ranking when the ranker is a women, and women are not affected by the ranker's gender. With a male ranker …Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under …

dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …