Gender differences in social interactions

Autor: Bernard Richter, Marie Lalanne, Guido Friebel, Peter Schwardmann, Paul Seabright
Přispěvatelé: Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics
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education
Social networks
Homophily
Dictator game
0502 economics and business
Gender differences
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C9 - Design of Experiments/C.C9.C91 - Laboratory
Individual Behavior
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
050207 economics
050205 econometrics
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Random assignment
05 social sciences
Flexibility (personality)
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information
Knowledge
and Uncertainty/D.D8.D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Trust game
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Preference
Friendship
Cohort
Observational study
Psychology
Social psychology
Zdroj: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Elsevier, 2021, 186, pp.33-45. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2021.03.016⟩
ISSN: 0167-2681
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.03.016
Popis: National audience; We study how the random assignment of new students to introductory-week groups shapes subsequent friendship networks. Both women and men report being much more likely to be friends with same-gender students with whom they were (randomly) assigned in a group during their first week on campus, and the effect is much stronger for women. When students from the same cohort play a repeated trust game in the experimental laboratory, their behavior helps explain what we observed in the field. Women display more stability and less flexibility than men in their interactions with individuals with whom they had previously played. This difference is enough to generate homophily in the observational data even though subjects show no intrinsic preference for same-gender interaction.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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