GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS


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Ergun S. J., Garcia-Munoz T., Fernanda Rivas M.

REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE SOCIOLOGIA, cilt.70, ss.99-111, 2012 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 70
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3989/ris.2011.04.19
  • Dergi Adı: REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE SOCIOLOGIA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.99-111
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper reviews the experimental economics literature on gender differences concerning four salient subjects: risk aversion, trust, deception and leadership. We review both experiments conducted in a laboratory and field experiments. We summarize very briefly the main characteristics of the experiments we review and point out the main results related to gender differences. The vast majority of the articles we have revised document gender differences in behavior; differences which could be explained by sex-role stereotypes which could be formed even in early stages of life and/or hormonal differences such as the female hormone oxytocin or estrogen.