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AN EXPERIMENT ON CORRUPTION AND GENDER
Author(s) -
Rivas M. Fernanda
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2012.00450.x
Subject(s) - language change , field (mathematics) , economics , positive economics , demographic economics , mathematics , art , literature , pure mathematics
A number of papers with field data have found differences in the corrupt activities of males and females; nonetheless they have drawbacks that may be overcome in a laboratory experiment. The aim of this paper is to see experimentally whether women and men, facing the same situation behave in a different way, as suggested in the field‐data studies or, on the contrary, whether they behave in the same way. The results found in the experiment show that women are indeed less corrupt than men.