L'influence de la connaissance du genre du partenaire dans les relations de confiance et de réciprocité: une étude expérimentale

Gender bias in trustworthiness

Aurélie Bonein () and Daniel Serra

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Abstract: Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A great heterogeneity of individuals’ behaviors is observed: from selfish behavior to complete trust and trustworthiness. Knowledge of responder’s gender does not imply different sending, even if men trust more their partners than women. However, a phenomenon of gender bias dominates in trustworthiness behavior.

Keywords: investment game; experiment; trust; reciprocity; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z13 C91 C0 D69 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp and nep-soc
Date: 2006-04
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Working Paper: L'influence de la connaissance du genre du partenaire dans les relations de confiance et de réciprocité: une étude expérimentale (2006)
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