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find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...
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We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …
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This paper studies gender heterogeneity in preferences. We used experimental methods to elicit the subjective discount … discount rate is related to number of children. No gender difference is found for individuals without children. Women …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …
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they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …
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