Why do women co-operate more in women's groups?

Arbeitspapier

We examine a public goods game in 83 communities in northern Liberia. Women contributed substantially more to a small-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as men. We try to explain this composition effect using a structural model, survey responses, and a second manipulation. Results suggest women in the all-women condition put more weight on co-operation regardless of value of public good, fear of discovery, or desire to match others' behaviour. Game players may have stronger motivation to signal public-spiritedness when primed to consider themselves representatives of the women of the community.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-389-9
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2017/163

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Public Goods ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Bayesian Analysis: General ; Field Experiments
• Thema: public goods ; gender ; Bayesian estimation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fearon, James D. ; Humphreys, Macartan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2017/389-9
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/190008
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ