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The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women
(University of Gothenburg, 2019-02)
Many studies report on the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. However, most of these studies have limited sample sizes and test multiple hypotheses ...
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 ...
Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries
(2012-09)
Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we ...
Confidence and Career Choices: An Experiment
(2018-01)
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in ...
Measuring Trust in Institutions
(2018-05)
In empirical studies, survey questions are typically used to measure trust; trust games are also used to measure interpersonal trust. In this paper, we measure trust in different institutions by using both trust games and ...
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Fisheries: Coordination and Cooperation
(2017-04-25)
Kapitel 1: Samarbete under risk och sann osäkerhet (ambiguity). ...
Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
(2010-05-18)
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We
evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in
competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and ...
The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)
This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct
in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are
some relations between them either in the topic ...
A man´s world? – The impact of a male dominated environment on female leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-11)
Despite the significant growth in female labor force participation and educational attainment over the past decades, few women reach leadership positions. In this study, we explore whether male dominated environments, in ...
The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
(2011-01)
This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior ...