(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …

experimental design. In contrast to the literature, the results from our experiment imply that the whole gender gap is driven by …. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result …

one online market experiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap in willingness to other …We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against …-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingness to self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and …

The economic literature has discussed the links between trust and gender, and trust and social capital. Given that some … empirical evidence shows also that gender and trust are somehow related and specifically women tend to trust less than men, I … try to investigate the effect of social capital on generalized trust, controlling also for the quot;gender effectquot …

This paper analyses gender differences in the trust game. Our experiment implements the triadic design proposed by Cox …

We test in the laboratory the effect of changing the experimenter's gender in the trust game. We assume that … experimental subjects seek to discover the true purpose of the experiment and this behaviour may produce a bias to confirm … experimenter's expectations. The gender of the experimenter is a possible source of experimenter bias in a test on gender …

. The experiment was conducted in a shopping mall with 885 adults with wide demographic variation. We replicate the gender …, using an experiment where participants can choose between piece rate and tournament compensation for simple addition tasks … performance does not affect the overall gender gap, but does affect the choices to compete by gender and ability. When feedback is …