Do women contribute more effort than men to a real public good?

Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

No 20-103, IAST Working Papers from Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)

Abstract: We present evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, conducted in eight small, rural villages in Mexico, in which subjects choose to exert real effort to fund real health centers in their own and other localities. We find that women are more willing than men to exert effort to fund the health center in another locality, relative to the one in their locality. This gender gap is mostly due to women who have some trust in the way the government spends taxes, and to women who benefit from a government program that targets women and fosters health care use. Our results also suggest that women might be aware of their higher willingness to exert effort for a public good that does not benefit them directly, compared to men, because they seem to reduce their individual effort the more female their environment is.

JEL-codes: C91 H41 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01
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