Gender differences in relationship preferences after union dissolution

Gender Differences in Preferences

E and policymakers have observed gender differences in a number of different domains, including consumption, investment and, perhaps of most concern, in the labor market (see Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn 2000 for a review). It is often hypothesized that these differences are caused by preference differences between the genders. In this article, we review experimental evidence on prefer...

Choices and preferences: Experiments on gender differences

Gender differences in consumer choices ond preferences were explored in two quosi-experiments. In Experiment I, business cards were collected from 144 men and 83 women attending a Young Designers exhibition. The business cards of male designers were found to be of standard size and printed on white card significantly more often than the cards of female designers. In Experiment 11, 35 female and...

Union Dissolution in the UK

In bloom : Gender differences in preferences among adolescents

We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among adolescents in Sweden. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. We find no gender gap in performance change when comparing performance under non-competition with performance under competition. Boys and girls are equally likely to choose to compete in word s...

Gender Similarities and Differences in Preferences for Specific Body Parts

This research investigated gender similarities and differences in preferences for specific body parts in an ideal mate. 137 participants indicated the degree to which they desired their ideal version of a particular body part in their ideal mate. Whereas conventional wisdom dictates that women's physical appearance is more important to men than is men's appearance to women, results indicated th...