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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488294
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The inelastic demand for affirmative action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … successfully altering beliefs about expected productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a more intrinsic …
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Experimental tests of survey responses to expenditure questions
Comerford, David; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2009
design ; data experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895103
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Paying more for less : why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts?
Dillon, Brian; De Weerdt, Joachim; O'Donoghue, Ted - 2017
Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases by 1,499 households over two weeks, we find that through bulk purchasing the average...
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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking : comparing children in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von - 2010 - Rev. June 3, 2011
We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender stereotyping when looking at competitiveness: running,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696759
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003978535
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Dominance and submission : social status biases economic sanctions
Essen, Emma von; Ranehill, Eva - 2011 - First version: 2011-01, This version: 2011-04
Social hierarchy is persistent in all almost all societies. Social norms and their enforcement are part of sustaining hierarchical systems. This paper combines social status and norm enforcement, by introducing status in a dictator game with third party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798671
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983612
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Gender and cooperation in children : experiments in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von - 2011
We compare how children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden cooperate in a Prisoner's Dilemma. We introduce a new measurement device for cooperation that can be easily understood by children. There is some evidence of more cooperation in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157407
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In bloom : gender differences in preferences among adolescents
Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von; Ranehill, Eva - 2011
gender gap diminishes and becomes non significant when we control for relative performance beliefs, indicating that some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157409