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We report experimental evidence on gender differences in financial decision that involves three depositors choosing …
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minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic … groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are … hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender gap in competitive inclination. …
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Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A …
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This paper presents a nonparametric approach to classification of data from lottery experiments. Using very basic mathematical tools the paper endeavors to answer the questions: How to determine the “average” subject in a group? How to find a subject presenting the most similar behavior to a...
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This short paper demonstrates that the claim of Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) that people are risk seeking for loss prospects, which confirmed a hypothetical assumption of the earlier Prospect Theory (PT), appears to be merely a result of using a specific form of the probability weighting...
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experiment in a “same gender pairings” setting in International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. In order to test the …
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A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …. Most experimental economics research has found that women are more generous than men. Evidence also suggests that gender … homegrown, we replicate the finding. When expectations of receiving are uniform rather than homegrown, gender differences in …
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We use a laboratory experiment to test the impacts of uncertainty, the magnitude of fines and aversion against making …
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People’s attachment to a subsidy creates difficulties for the government to phase out, and eventually eliminate, the subsidy. Elimination of fuel subsidy scheme in Indonesia is a perfect example of such occurrence. The subsidy has been implementing to commodity as opposed to households, thus...
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This paper conducts a laboratory experiment to investigate the role of social connections in behavioral indirect …
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