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Deciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups

dc.contributor.coauthorGürdal, Mehmet Y.
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economics
dc.contributor.kuauthorErtaç, Seda
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:01:14Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractBeing the leader in a group often involves making risky decisions that affect the payoffs of all members, and the decision to take this responsibility in a group is endogenous in many contexts. In this paper, we experimentally study: (1) the willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group, in comparison to their individual decisions. We observe a striking difference between males and females, with a much lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is generally lower than in the case where subjects decide for themselves only, indicating a cautious shift. The women that would like to make the group decision and the women that do not are no different in terms of how much risk they take for themselves, nor for their group. For men, on the other hand, we find that the ones who would like to lead tend to take more risk on behalf of the group. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.openaccessYES
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume83
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.009
dc.identifier.eissn1879-1751
dc.identifier.issn0167-2681
dc.identifier.quartileQ3
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/8193
dc.identifier.wos306863500003
dc.keywordsGender
dc.keywordsGroup decision-making
dc.keywordsRisk
dc.keywordsLeadership
dc.keywordsExperiments
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleDeciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups
dc.typeJournal Article
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