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D'Exelle, Ben 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9332-5223, Gutekunst, Christine and Riedl, Arno
(2023)
The effect of gender and gender pairing on bargaining: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 205.
pp. 237-269.
ISSN 0167-2681
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Abstract
Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in earnings from bargaining. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender composition of the bargaining pairs as well as the disclosure of the participants’ identities. We find gender differences in earnings and agreements, but only when identities and, thus, genders are disclosed. Women in same-gender pairs obtain higher final earnings than men and women in mixed-gender pairs, which is due to the lower likelihood of disagreement among women-only pairs. We identify gender differences in demands and demand inconsistency--the money left on the table once demands are corrected for beliefs about the counterpart’s demand--as mechanisms behind the observed gender differences in bargaining outcomes. In addition, we find that gender differences in demand inconsistency are related to gender differences in education and a measure of expected generosity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bargaining,experiment,gender,gender pairing,economics and econometrics,organizational behavior and human resource management,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2023 09:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89200 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.024 |
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