Gender Beliefs and Cooperation in a Public Goods game Experiment

Irene Staveren*, E-M Sent, J Vyrastekova

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Abstract

We study the role of gender beliefs for cooperation in a public goods
game experiment. Controlling for risk preferences and for subjects’ unconditional willingness to cooperate, we find that gender beliefs affect behavior in homogenous groups where the group composition was announced.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages19
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2009
EventPaper presented during the EAEPE conference held on 6-9 November 2009 - Amsterdam
Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

Conference

ConferencePaper presented during the EAEPE conference held on 6-9 November 2009
CityAmsterdam
Period1/01/09 → …

Bibliographical note

JEL Classification: C72, C91

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