Gender Differences in Economic Experiments
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Selim Jürgen Ergun, Teresa García-Muñoz, M. Fernanda Rivas METU NCC Economics Program and GLOBE Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa and GLOBE Universidad de Granada ABSTRACT 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.
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