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Risk-tolerant women donate more than men : experimental evidence of dictator games

Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2015

findings of gender differences in charitable giving may be explained by risk-tolerant women donating more. …

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Women form social networks more selectively and less opportunistically than men

Friebel, Guido; Lalanne, Marie; Richter, Bernard; … - 2017

We test two hypotheses, based on sexual selection theory, about gender differences in costly social interactions …

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Gender Differences and Stereotypes in Strategic Thinking

Cubel, Maria - 2016

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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Who runs first to the bank?

Kiss, Hubert János; Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael; … - 2018

We study how lines form endogenously in front of banks when depositors differ in their liquidity needs. Our model has two stages. In the first one, depositors choose the level of costly effort they want to exert to arrive early at the bank which determines the order of decisions. In the second...

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Strategic Behavior Across Gender : A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...

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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players

Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010

probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …

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Why are Economists so Different? Nature, Nurture and Gender Effects in a Simple Trust Game

Haucap, Justus - 2014

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to differences between female law and economics students. While female law...

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Why are economists so different? : nature, nurture and gender effects in a simple trust game

Haucap, Justus; Müller, Andrea - 2014

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Why are economists so different? : nature, nurture and gender effects in a simple trust game ; conference paper

Haucap, Justus; Müller, Andrea - 2014

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment in class-room. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to heterogeneity between female law and economics students....

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Contributing to public goods as individuals versus group representatives : evidence of gender differences

Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Røgeberg, Ole - 2014 - This version July 2014

We report evidence from a laboratory experiment comparing contributions in public good games played as individuals to contributions made as group representatives. We find that women alter their behaviour more than men. The change is in an out-group friendly direction: while men's contributions...

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