Gender differences in economic experiments
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31571Metadatos
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Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Materia
Gender Risk aversion Trust Deception Leadership
Fecha
2010Referencia bibliográfica
Ergun, S.J.; García-Muñoz, T.; Rivas, M.F. Gender differences in economic experiments. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2010). (The Papers; 10/14). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31571]
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Financial support from the MCI (SEJ2007-62081/ECON), Junta de Andalucía- Excelencia (P07.SEJ.02547) and Instituto de la Mujer (2007 I+D+I/031).Resumen
This paper reviews the experimental economics literature on gender differences concerning four subjects: risk aversion, trust, deception and leadership. The vast majority of the articles we have revised document gender differences in behavior; differences which could be explained by sex-role stereotypes and/or hormonal differences.