Gender Beliefs and Cooperation in a Public Goods game Experiment

Irene Staveren; E-M Sent; J Vyrastekova

Gender Beliefs and Cooperation in a Public Goods game Experiment

Irene Staveren^*
, E-M Sent
, J Vyrastekova

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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 language	English
Number of pages	19
Publication status	Published - 3 Nov 2009
Event	Paper presented during the EAEPE conference held on 6-9 November 2009 - Amsterdam Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

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Conference	Paper presented during the EAEPE conference held on 6-9 November 2009
City	Amsterdam
Period	1/01/09 → …

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JEL Classification: C72, C91

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