Our study contributes to a large literature in experimental economics that explores gender differences in how people are motivated. We focus on guilt aversion (GA), a surprisingly rather unexplored issue. Our experiment supports the idea that men are more GA than women. Our results also support different rationales in explaining observed similar behaviors, e.g., promise keeping. We provide a potential intuition for our findings, which is based on the pregnancy-related biological asymmetry between genders.
Di Bartolomeo, G., Dufwenberg, M., Papa, S., Razzolini, L. (2022). Guilt Aversion: Eve versus Adam [Working paper].
Guilt Aversion: Eve versus Adam
Stefano Papa;
2022-01-01
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Our study contributes to a large literature in experimental economics that explores gender differences in how people are motivated. We focus on guilt aversion (GA), a surprisingly rather unexplored issue. Our experiment supports the idea that men are more GA than women. Our results also support different rationales in explaining observed similar behaviors, e.g., promise keeping. We provide a potential intuition for our findings, which is based on the pregnancy-related biological asymmetry between genders.File in questo prodotto:
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