In this study, we report experimental results on the dictator decision collected in two neighboring ethnic minority groups, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patriachal Yi, in Yunnan province in southwestern China. We follow the same double-blind protocol as Eckel and Grossman (1998), who find that...

We report the results of an experiment designed to study whether or not having experienced booms and crashes in naturally occurring asset markets affects subjects' trading behavior in the lab. Active investors in the Shanghai Stock Exchange were recruited to participate in either the Boom...

We conduct experiments on two different risk tasks with subjects from two neighboring ethnic groups, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patriarchal Yi in China. Women are more risk averse than men at both tasks within both ethnic groups. However, the gender gap is smaller in the Mosuo. Regressions...