Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/23808 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 236
Publisher: 
European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Frankfurt (Oder)
Abstract: 
Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of women is not. This result agrees with the reinterpretation of Carol Gilligan's (1982) view that women are more sensitive to the context in which decisions are made.
Subjects: 
gender
context
personality
public goods
JEL: 
C91
J16
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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