Are women more sensitive to the decision-making context?

Moya, Luis Miguel Miller; Úbeda, Paloma

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.014

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“…It was found that (ceteris paribus) women are 27% more likely to choose the fair allocation that is most convenient to them. This behavior is consistent with the recent finding in Miller and Ubeda (2011), who show that (in a repeated context) women are more likely to switch between fairness principles, choosing the most convenient one across rounds.…”

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“…As a result, we lack experimental evidence for how gender interacts with self-interest when dictators have to choose a division of the generated surplus. One remarkable exception is Miller and Ubeda (2011), who consider a dictator game with production played during twenty periods. In each period, subjects are paid depending on their performance in a real-effort task that consists of unscrambling as many puzzles as possible.…”

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“…In such a set, the allocations that represent a fairness ideal are the egalitarian, the accountability and the libertarian allocation. The interested reader can see Cappelen et al (2007), Konow (2000), Miller and Ubeda (2011) and Rodriguez-Lara and Moreno-Garrido (2012) for the application and the rationale of these fairness allocations in a "traditional" dictator game in which dictators are allowed to choose any distribution of the surplus. Konow (2003) is an excellent revision of the different fairness ideals.…”

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“…This is related to the dictator's gender in Ubeda and Miller (2011) in a within-subject analysis. I note that the use of the most convenient allocation might be related to the existence of what Croson and Konow (2009) call "moral bias" (i.e., behavior biased away from impartial standards).…”

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“…Thus if the sample size were larger, I would expect men to be (significantly) more selfish as it occurs in Miller and Ubeda (2011).…”

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An experimental study of gender differences in distributive justice

Rodríguez-Lara

2015

Cuadernos de Economía

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ResumenEste artículo muestra que las mujeres eligen con mayor frecuencia la asignación justa que les resulta más beneficiosa a sus pagos monetarios. La evidencia experimental proviene de un juego del dictador con producción, en el que los sujetos primero resuelven un cuestionario para acumular ganancias, y luego dividen estas ganancias eligiendo una de las cinco posibles asignaciones propuestas, algunas de las cuales se fundamentan en ideales de justicia. Los datos sugieren también que las mujeres son más sensibles al contexto, dado que sus elecciones dependen de si han acumulado más o menos dinero que sus oponentes. Esto no ocurre en el caso de los hombres (Códigos JEL: C91, D30, D64, J16) Palabras clave: diferencias de género, justicia distributiva, ideales de justicia, elecciones egoistas e interesados, economía experimental, juego del dictador con producción. AbstractThis paper shows that women are more likely than men to employ the fair allocation that most benefits their financial payoff. The experimental evidence is gleaned from a dictator game with production, in which subjects first solve a quiz to accumulate earnings and then divide the surplus by choosing one over five different allocations, some of which represent a fairness ideal. The data also suggest that women are more sensitive to the context as their allocation choices depend on whether they have accumulated more or less money than their counterparts. This is not the case for men's allocation choices (JEL Codes: C91, D30, D64, J16) Keywords: gender differences, distributive justice, fairness ideals, self-serving choices, experimental economics, dictator game with production. 1 An Experimental Study of Gender Differences in Distributive Justice AbstractThis paper shows that women are more likely than men to employ the fair allocation that most benefits their financial payoff. The experimental evidence is gleaned from a dictator game with production, in which subjects first solve a quiz to accumulate earnings and then divide the surplus by choosing one over five different allocations, some of which represent a fairness ideal. The data also suggest that women are more sensitive to the context as their allocation choices depend on whether they have accumulated more or less money than their counterparts. This is not the case for men's allocation choices (JEL Codes:C91, D30, D64, J16)

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An experimental study of gender differences in distributive justice

Rodríguez-Lara

2015

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Gender differences in decision‐making: The effects of gender stereotype threat moderated by sensitivity to punishment and fear of negative evaluation

Villanueva-Moya

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2021

Behavioral Decision Making

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Research has demonstrated gender differences in the decision-making process, showing that women make more disadvantageous risk decisions than men. However, these differences have not been examined in terms of psychosocial or sociostructural variables, such as the gender stereotype threat. We conducted an experimental study (N s = 105) to test the well-established stereotype threat effect on decision-making through the Iowa Gambling Task and the possible moderation of this effect by sensitivity to punishment and fear of negative evaluation. The results revealed that women under a stereotype threat condition make more disadvantageous risk decisions than men in the same conditions or women in the nonstereotype threat condition. Moreover, women greatly fearing negative evaluation seemed to make more disadvantageous risk decisions compared with other groups. These findings highlight the relevance of psychosocial variables that legitimize gender inequality, such as the stereotype threat and fear of negative evaluation, in women's decision-making process.

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Performance contests and merit pay with empathic employees

Fabel,

Mauser,

Zhang

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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This paper studies the behavioral responses of employees who are endowed with empathic abilities to different institutional designs of incentive pay. Empathic abilities motivate altruistic behavior by sensing the other's feelings toward oneself. In performance contests, empathic individuals withhold effort, most (less) strongly when facing a non‐empathic (empathic) contestant. Effort levels of both non‐empathic and empathic individuals increase with a higher probability that the contestant is of their own type. By developing a theoretical model, our analysis contributes to understanding observed individual behavior in experiments and corresponding econometric evidence. With direct merit pay, effort choices only depend on the signaling quality of the performance measure. Individuals with stronger empathic abilities may shy away from performance contests to, instead, receive merit pay. If gender governs empathic abilities, setting incentives by performance contests cannot simultaneously ensure equal pay and equal opportunities.

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Are women more sensitive to the decision-making context?

Cited by 38 publications

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An experimental study of gender differences in distributive justice

An experimental study of gender differences in distributive justice

Gender differences in decision‐making: The effects of gender stereotype threat moderated by sensitivity to punishment and fear of negative evaluation

Performance contests and merit pay with empathic employees

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