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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212755
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329041
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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451190
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371894
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Gender differences in risk aversion: Do single-sex environments affect their development?
Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011
observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282545
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584679
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195830
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Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other … decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions, free-riding and efficiency concerns for girls. Gender differences are … already established at approximately age 10. They cannot be explained by gender-specific increases in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744756
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513185
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
anonymity between experimenter and subject. It has been argued that this lack of experimenter-subject anonymity may create … across studies make it difficult to isolate the impact of experimenter-subject anonymity on prosocial behavior. In this paper … we use a novel procedure that allows us to examine the impact of the exact same ceteris-paribus variation in anonymity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283588