Gender and preferences in a random sample - A combined experiment and survey study focusing on gender and economic preferences

We will explore the same games and measures in three contexts, i.e with three settings, designed to explore different aspects of potential gender differences. These three settings will be investigated using three different treatments for each game and measure. The experimental data measures preferences in a broad range of standard incentivized decisions related to altruism, fairness, cooperation, trust, coordination, risk and competitiveness.

Different treatments vary the salience of the participant’s own gender, as well as the gender of the counterpart. While gender differences in previous experimental studies typically are studied without controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, we have data on age, gender income and education and other sociodemographic variables. The survey is an OSU of the Swedish population aged 18-73 years from 2011-08-19.

It has been implemented by two methods, telephone interviews and distribution of printed questionnaires. Of the sample, 2349 respondents answered by telephone and 800 respondents answered by postal questionnaire.