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Gender Based Focal Points

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Summary, in English

The subjects behaved significantly more “hawkish” in an experimental battle of the sexes game when the co-player was a woman compared to when it was a man. Discrimination helped the parties to coordinate and increase the average earnings in the subject group of mixed sex, compared to the unisex groups.

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Pages

292-314

Publication/Series

Games and Economic Behavior

Volume

32

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

0899-8256

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • gender
  • focal point
  • coordination
  • discrimination
  • convention

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0899-8256