scholarly journals Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Johansson ◽  
Arizo Karimi ◽  
Peter Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Social Preferences

scholarly journals The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano DellaVigna ◽  
John A List ◽  
Ulrike Malmendier ◽  
Gautam Rao
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Potential Explanation ◽  
The Social

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women become less generous when it becomes easy to avoid the solicitor. Our structural estimates of the social preference parameters suggest an explanation: women are more likely to be on the margin of giving, partly because of a less dispersed distribution of altruism. We find similar results for the willingness to complete an unpaid survey; women are more likely to be on the margin of participation.

Gender Differences in Behavioral Traits and Labor Market Outcomes

2017 ◽  
pp. 480-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Shurchkov ◽  
Catherine C. Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Behavioral Traits ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Occupational Sorting

Despite a policy push toward equality, substantial gender gaps in earnings and vertical gender segregation persist in the labor market. Studies point to gender-specific occupational sorting as one of the primary explanatory factors. But why do men and women sort into different careers? In this chapter, we document the evidence that suggests that gender differences along four behavioral traits may offer a plausible explanation. Specifically, the consensus in the literature is that women, on average, exhibit greater risk aversion, lower levels of competitiveness, and less desire to negotiate as compared to men. Gender differences in social preferences are less robust, but women appear to be more sensitive to social context and framing. Importantly, there is no conclusive evidence on whether these differences are inherent or societal for any of the individual traits, although most studies point to the latter.

scholarly journals The dopaminergic reward system underpins gender differences in social preferences

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 819-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Soutschek ◽  
Christopher J. Burke ◽  
Anjali Raja Beharelle ◽  
Robert Schreiber ◽  
Susanna C. Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Reward System

scholarly journals Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership*

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sule Alan ◽  
Seda Ertac ◽  
Elif Kubilay ◽  
Gyongyi Loranth
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Real Effort ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Risky Decisions

Abstract Using data from a large-scale field experiment, we show that while there is no gender difference in the willingness to make risky decisions on behalf of a group in a sample of children, a large gap emerges in a sample of adolescents. The proportion of girls who exhibit leadership willingness drops by 39% going from childhood to adolescence. We explore the possible factors behind this drop and find that it is largely associated with a dramatic decline in “social confidence”, measured by the willingness to perform a real effort task in public.

scholarly journals The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharat Chandar ◽  
Uri Gneezy ◽  
John List ◽  
Ian Muir
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Social Preferences

scholarly journals Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P Carpenter ◽  
Erika Seki
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Toyama Bay ◽  
Individual Effort

Abstract Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed in three different aspects of fishing. The first group are fishermen, the second group are fish wholesalers (or traders), and the third group are staff at the local fishing coop. Although our participants have much in common (e.g., their common relationship to the local fishery and the fact that they all live in the same community), we argue that they are exposed to different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment. Specifically, fishermen and traders, who interact in more competitive environments are significantly less cooperative than the coop staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to a large extent.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Castillo ◽  
Ragan Petrie ◽  
Máximo Torero ◽  
Lise Vesterlund
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Field Experiment
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