Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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This study presents evidence from a
lab-in-the-field experiment, conducted in eight small, rural
villages in Mexico, in which subjects choose to exert real
effort to fund real health centers in their own and other
localities. The results show that women are more willing
than men to exert effort to fund the health center in
another locality, relative to the one in their locality.
This gender gap is mostly due to women who have some trust
in the way the government spends taxes, and to those who
benefit from a government program that tar gets women and
fosters healthcare use. These results also suggest that
women might be aware of their higher willingness to exert
effort for a public good that does not benefit them
directly, compared to men, because they seem to reduce their
individual effort the more female their environment is.
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PUBLIC GOODS, GENDER, LAB-IN-THE-FIELD EXPERIMENT, REAL EFFORT, IN- VERSUS OUT-GROUP TRANSFERS