• DocumentCode
    693931
  • Title

    Gender, Self-Interest, and Altruism: The Evidence and Implication from Experiments

  • Author

    Wu, Guodong ; Wei, Guangxing

  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    14-16 Nov. 2013
  • Firstpage
    410
  • Lastpage
    413
  • Abstract
    People are not always self-interested, but still have certain altruistic favor, which has certain gender difference. The everyday experience "men are rational animals, while women are sentimental animals" is proved to some extent in the experiments, while the difference is not quite significant in statistics. It shows that girls are more slightly self-interested than boys, while boys are more completely self-interested than girls if they are self-interested at all. The longer one works in the team, the stronger his altruistic favor is. Managers should improve the team work by full use of people\´s altruistic favor, which can improve the management performance.
  • Keywords
    Animals; Economics; Educational institutions; Games; Production; Statistical analysis; altruistic favor; economic experiment; self-interest; team production;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (BIFE), 2013 Sixth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hangzhou,, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-4778-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BIFE.2013.86
  • Filename
    6961166