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Gender in Committees

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Dufwenberg, Martin () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)
Muren, Astri () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)
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How does a group’s gender composition influence its decisions? Economists have found women to be more generous and egalitarian than men, so one might expect groups with more women to be more generous/egalitarian. Group polarization, whereby discussions amplify preexisting attitudes (a phenomenon well-established in psychology), would enhance that effect. We report experimental evidence. Femalemajority groups are more generous/egalitarian than male-majority groups,ut female unisex groups are not the most generous/egalitarian. We discuss how these findings accord with our derived conjectures, and what can be learned regarding the influence of gender composition on committee decision-making more generally.

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Department of Economics in its series Research Papers in Economics with number 2003:6.

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Keywords: gender groups generosity group polarization

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