Are women more sensitive to the decision-making context?

Luis Miller and Paloma Ubeda

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, vol. 83, issue 1, 98-104

Abstract: We conduct an experiment to assess gender differences across different economic contexts. Specifically, we test whether women are more sensitive to the decision-making context in situations that demand the use of different fairness principles. We find that women adopt more often than men conditional fairness principles that require information about the context. Furthermore, while most men adopt only one decision principle, most women switch between multiple decision principles. These results complement and reinforce Croson and Gneezy’s organizing explanation of greater context sensitivity of women.

Keywords: Context-sensitivity; Distributive Justice; Gender differences; Laboratory experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D63 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.014

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