Using a between-subjects design, this experiment compared the effect of competitive and cooperative work in the lab on …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

We report evidence from a laboratory experiment comparing contributions in public good games played as individuals to …

We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other … decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions, free-riding and efficiency concerns for girls. Gender differences are … already established at approximately age 10. They cannot be explained by gender-specific increases in other …

Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can … whether this form of segregation is due to inherent gender differences in the willingness to volunteer for take on positions … that segregation in coercive roles is due to conformity with pre-assigned gender roles in both cultures. We find that women …

Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can … whether this form of segregation is due to gender differences in the willingness to volunteer for take on positions of power … segregation in coercive roles is due to conformity with pre-assigned gender roles in both cultures. We find that women in the …

heterogeneity ; public goods experiment ; peer punishment ; anti-social punishment ; Namibia …

We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a … basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …