Gender differences in the laboratory: Evidence from prisoner's dilemma games (1999)
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Abstract
We implement a prisoner's dilemma-type game in the laboratory to study whether men and women have different cooperation rates, and whether they respond differently to experiences in previous rounds. We find that women cooperate significantly more than men in the first round; this difference disappears by the last round. We attribute the latter result to the very similar reactions of men and women to experiences they have made in previous rounds. We also find that the gender composition of the subject pool has a significant impact on cooperative behavior. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: J16; C92; H41.
Bibliographic entry
Ortmann, A., & Tichy, L. K. (1999). Gender differences in the laboratory: Evidence from prisoner's dilemma games. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39, 327-339.
Miscellaneous
| Publication year | 1999 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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| Categories: | Experimental GamesEconomic Behavior | |
| Keywords: | double-blind designexperimentsgender differencesprisonerdilemma game |