Trust in cooperation or ability? An experimental study on gender differences

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 494-497

  Schwieren, Christiane ^a   Sutter, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ability; Cooperation; Experiment; Gender; Stereotypes; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849091602     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.09.033     Document Type: Article

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