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Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility: Framing effects in a dictator game
Bruttel, Lisa; Stolley, Florian - In: Games 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-16
depending on the dictator's gender. We find that only men react positively to a text that stresses their responsibility for the …
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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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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/10014533073
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In-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups
Grimm, Veronika; Utikal, Verena; Valmasoni, Lorenzo - 2015
In this study, we investigate how and why people discriminate among different groups, including their own groups and multiple out-groups. In a laboratory experiment, we use dictator games for five groups to compare actual transfers to in-group and out-group agents with the respective beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527624
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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/10011444300
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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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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gaechter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2017
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/10011698664
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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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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2014
]sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352367
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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