conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study within a population that believes that God has knowledge of all their … actions. Within this population, we find that those who attend church frequently appear to refrain from lying while those that … how our data fits into the theoretical work on lying …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical … gender differentials in health. About 25-46% of the differentials in non-work physical activity can be attributed to …

The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … behavioral problems are also associated with labor market earnings, their associations are not significantly different by gender …. The gender differences in headstrong and dependent behavior are not explained by education, marriage, depression, self …

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … inferior treatment of men we conduct an experiment where passengers send a signal on valuation before negotiating. The signal … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …

identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …