Arbeitspapier
Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity
We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit greater trust than women do while women show much higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior is driven strongly by expectations of reciprocation. We posit that the lower levels of trust exhibited by women may be attributed to a higher degree of risk aversion. We derive estimates for the risk aversion parameter for both men and women.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Wellesley College Working Paper ; No. 2002-03
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Noncooperative Games
- Subject
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Gender Differences
Trust
Reciprocity
Risk Aversion
Experiments
Vertrauen
Geschlecht
Social Capital
Experiment
Theorie
reciprocity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Chaudhuri, Ananish
Gangadharan, Lata
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Wellesley College, Department of Economics
- (where)
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Wellesley, MA
- (when)
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2002
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chaudhuri, Ananish
- Gangadharan, Lata
- Wellesley College, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2002
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