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Gender and cooperative behavior: economic man rides alone

Seguino, Stephanie; Stevens, Thomas; Lutz, Mark - In: Feminist Economics 2 (1996) 1, pp. 1-21

Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth...

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Gender and generosity: does degree of anonymity or group gender composition matter?

Cadsby, C.; Servátka, Maroš; Song, Fei - In: Experimental Economics 13 (2010) 3, pp. 299-308

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Measuring altruism in a public goods experiment: a comparison of U.S. and Czech subjects

Anderson, Lisa; DiTraglia, Francis; Gerlach, Jeffrey - In: Experimental Economics 14 (2011) 3, pp. 426-437

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Altruism Within the Family: A Comparison of Father and Mother Using Life Happiness and Life Satisfaction

Ong, Qiyan; Ho, Kong; Ho, Kong - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 2, pp. 485-510

children’s outcomes than the same increase in fathers’ income, suggesting gender differences may exist in parents’ altruism … mutual altruism between father and child as well as mother and child dyads in Singapore. We found that mutual altruism exists …-being. Further, we find that gender difference in altruism of fathers and mothers is not driven by the difference in the extent of …

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Heterogeneous preferences for altruism: gender and personality, social status, giving and taking

Visser, Michael; Roelofs, Matthew - In: Experimental Economics 14 (2011) 4, pp. 490-506

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Helping Others Shows Differential Benefits on Health and Well-being for Male and Female Teens

Schwartz, Carolyn; Keyl, Penelope; Marcum, John; Bode, Rita - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 4, pp. 431-448

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Sex, self-interest and health care priorities

Sach, Tracey H.; Whynes, David K. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 1-7

In this questionnaire study, individuals were asked to prioritise publicly provided preventive health care services, one of which would be unavailable to them by virtue of their sex. The aim was to establish whether men and women would exhibit different degrees of self-interest when making a...

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Voluntarism as an investment in human, social and financial capital: evidence from a farmer-to-farmer extension program in Kenya

Kiptot, Evelyne; Franzel, Steven - In: Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2014) 2, pp. 231-243

incentives. Altruism, gaining knowledge and skills, and social benefits were the most frequently mentioned motivating factors for …

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How Do I Choose Thee? Let me Count the Ways': A Textual Analysis of Similarities and Differences in Modes of Decision-making in China and the United States

Weber, Elke U.; Ames, Daniel R.; Blais, Ann-Renee - In: Management and Organization Review 1 (2004) 1, pp. 87-118

based on prior theoretical and empirical investigations of cross-cultural variation in human motivation and decision …

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“Our market is our community”: women farmers and civic agriculture in Pennsylvania, USA

Trauger, Amy; Sachs, Carolyn; Barbercheck, Mary; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2010) 1, pp. 43-55

Civic agriculture is characterized in the literature as complementary and embedded social and economic strategies that provide economic benefits to farmers at the same time that they ostensibly provide socio-environmental benefits to the community. This paper presents some ways in which women...

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