We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit greater trust than women do while women show much...

We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit greater trust than women do while women show...

We explore gender differences in trust and trustworthiness between male and female individuals and groups consisting of two members of the same sex to understand if single sex groups behave differently from individuals of the same sex. We find some differences in the early rounds such as: (i)...