To investigate the effects of gender and national culture on economic behavior, we compare all-male and all-female groups from Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with a strong free-riding equilibrium and many socially efficient threshold equilibria. Females and...

We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a strong free-riding equilibrium and many socially efficient threshold equilibria. Although higher rewards produce higher contributions, neither culture nor gender has any...

Understanding norms of fairness is essential for explaining many phenomena in organizations. Using a dictator game, we examine the behavior of individuals who are given the responsibility of individually making an allocation decision on behalf of a two-person group in a dictator game without...