Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity

Chaudhuri, Ananish; Gangadharan, Lata

dc.contributor.author	Chaudhuri, Ananish	en
dc.contributor.author	Gangadharan, Lata	en
dc.date.accessioned	2006-11-30T20:53:13Z	en
dc.date.available	2006-11-30T20:53:13Z	en
dc.date.issued	2003	en
dc.identifier.citation	Department of Economics Working Paper Series 248	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/136	en
dc.description.abstract	We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit greater trust than women do while women show higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior is driven strongly by expectations of reciprocation. We posit that the lower levels of trust exhibited by women may be attributed to a higher degree of risk aversion.	en
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dc.relation.ispartofseries	Department of Economics Working Paper Series (1997-2006)	en
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dc.subject.other	gender differences	en
dc.subject.other	Economics	en
dc.title	Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: the author	en
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pubs.org-id	Economics	en