Konferenzbeitrag

Why are Economists so Different? Nature, Nurture and Gender Effects in a Simple Trust Game

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment in class-room. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to heterogeneity between female law and economics students. While female law and economics students are already different in nature (during the first term of study), the gap between them also widens more drastically over the course of their study compared to their male counterparts. This finding is rather critical as the detailed composition of students is typically neglected in most experiments.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Gender Issues ; No. G03-V3

Classification
Wirtschaft
Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Undergraduate
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual

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Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Müller, Andrea
Haucap, Justus
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(where)
Kiel und Hamburg
(when)
2014

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  • Konferenzbeitrag

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  • Müller, Andrea
  • Haucap, Justus
  • ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Time of origin

  • 2014

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