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| Title: | | Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding  |
| Authors: | | Pearson, Matthew Schipper, Burkhard C. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Papers, University of California, Department of Economics 09,11 |
| Abstract: | | In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid significantly different in other phases of the menstrual cycle. We suggest an evolutionary hypothesis according to which women are genetically predisposed by hormones to generally behave more riskily during their fertile phase of their menstrual cycle in order to increase the probability of conception, quality of offspring, and genetic variety. It is in contrast to results by Chen, Katuscak and Ozdenoren (2005, 2009). |
| Subjects: | | hormones menstrual cycle gender likelihood of conception first price auction risk behavior competition bidding endocrinological economics |
| JEL: | | C72 C91 C92 D44 D81 D87 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, UC Davis
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