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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ...
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)
We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned
endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous
studies, we find that windfall endowments ...
Are women less effective leaders than men? Evidence from experiments using coordination games
(2020-11)
We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female ...
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(2016-11)
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ...
Essays on Development and Experimental Economics: Migration, Discrimination and Positional Concerns
(2013-11-22)
Paper 1: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
We test for gender, class, and ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian rental housing market using fake application ...