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In a within-subjects experiment we test the relation of risk preferences and charitable giving. Women not only give … findings of gender differences in charitable giving may be explained by risk-tolerant women donating more. …
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We explore how risk-taking in the card game contract bridge, and in a financial gamble, correlate with variation in the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) among serious tournament bridge players. In bridge risk-taking, we find significant interactions between genetic predisposition and skill....
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This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
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externality and an opportunity for free riding. We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate whether group size and the … fail to play a best-response to their position within the network. -- strategic experimentation ; experiment ; bandit game …
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ten years worth of experimental data from two countries exploring the existence and endogeneity of gender differences in … classroom and one from the laboratory. We observe robust and significant gender differences in strategic sophistication in … of strategic reasoning varies with gender priming. Females display significantly higher levels of strategic …
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We test two hypotheses, based on sexual selection theory, about gender differences in costly social interactions …
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Combining the methodologies of experiment economics and molecular genetics, we report genetic association between sex … to a deeper understanding of gender difference in fairness preference at the level of molecular genetics …
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is not the main experiment …
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social dilemmas. We subject our model to data from an experimental public goods game and a risk experiment, and we measure …
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predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
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