کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
884329 1471685 2009 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum
چکیده انگلیسی

Women, and particularly women in all-female groups, appear to be especially adept at providing public goods in developing countries. We use a one-shot Public Goods game to explore the effect of sex and a group's sex composition on the voluntary provision of public goods in a Nairobi slum. Sex heterogeneity hurts the voluntary provision of public goods because women—but not men—contribute less in mixed-sex than same-sex groups. Women contribute as much as men in same-sex groups. This result is driven by women's pessimism and men's optimism about others’ contributions in mixed-sex groups rather than by gendered social preferences.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - Volume 70, Issues 1–2, May 2009, Pages 1–9
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