Gender and cooperative preferences

Autor(en)

Nadja C. Furtner, Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Dominik Matzat, Conny Wollbrant

Abstrakt

Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others’ contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show that existing inconclusive results can be understood when controlling for beliefs and underlying cooperative preferences. Robustness checks of our original data from Germany, based on data from six countries around the world, confirm our main empirical results: Women are significantly more often classified as conditionally cooperative than men, while men are more likely to be free riders. Beliefs play an important role in shaping unconditional contributions, supporting the view that these are more malleable or sensitive to subtle cues in women than in men.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wiener Zentrum für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Stirling, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Gothenburg

Journal

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Band

181

Seiten

39-48

Anzahl der Seiten

10

ISSN

0167-2681

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.11.030

Publikationsdatum

01-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

502045 Verhaltensökonomie, 502057 Experimentelle Ökonomie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/b269da25-2fc1-48fc-b777-ea6ed09b3cbf