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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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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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We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …
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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 …
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Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty and cooperation and tested the...
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elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al … decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
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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 …
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Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first...
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experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same …
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