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Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality

Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of women is not. This result agrees with the reinterpretation of Carol Gilligan's (1982) view that women are more sensitive to the context in which decisions are made.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 236

Classification: Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Public Goods

Subject: gender
context
personality
public goods
Öffentliches Gut
Spieltheorie
Geschlecht
Persönlichkeitspsychologie
Experiment
Deutschland

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Perugini, Marco
Tan, Jonathan H. W.
Zizzo, Daniel John

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics

(where): Frankfurt (Oder)

(when): 2005

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23808

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Perugini, Marco
Tan, Jonathan H. W.
Zizzo, Daniel John
European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics

Time of origin

2005

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