Abstract: Why are women less likely to engage with politics as compared to men? I explore whether women avoid politics because of their lower levels of tolerance for conflict and disagreement. Men are more likely to say they enjoy a lively political argument, while women are more conflict avoidant. These differences in people’s orientations toward conflict are thought to contribute to gender gaps in political interest and engagement. I explore this using survey responses to a module of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. I find that people’s positive reactions to conflict better explain the decision to engage in politics than negative reactions to disagreements. While women report higher levels of conflict avoidance than men, gender gaps in political engagement cannot be explained by women’s greater aversion to conflict. Instead, gender gaps are better understood as a product of men’s comparatively higher levels of enjoyment of arguments and disagreements.
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Gender gaps in political engagement cannot be explained by women’s greater aversion to conflict, it is a product of men’s comparatively higher levels of enjoyment of arguments and disagreements
Conflict Avoidance and Gender Gaps in Political Engagement. Jennifer Wolak. Political Behavior, May 7 2020. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-020-09614-5
Abstract: Why are women less likely to engage with politics as compared to men? I explore whether women avoid politics because of their lower levels of tolerance for conflict and disagreement. Men are more likely to say they enjoy a lively political argument, while women are more conflict avoidant. These differences in people’s orientations toward conflict are thought to contribute to gender gaps in political interest and engagement. I explore this using survey responses to a module of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. I find that people’s positive reactions to conflict better explain the decision to engage in politics than negative reactions to disagreements. While women report higher levels of conflict avoidance than men, gender gaps in political engagement cannot be explained by women’s greater aversion to conflict. Instead, gender gaps are better understood as a product of men’s comparatively higher levels of enjoyment of arguments and disagreements.
Abstract: Why are women less likely to engage with politics as compared to men? I explore whether women avoid politics because of their lower levels of tolerance for conflict and disagreement. Men are more likely to say they enjoy a lively political argument, while women are more conflict avoidant. These differences in people’s orientations toward conflict are thought to contribute to gender gaps in political interest and engagement. I explore this using survey responses to a module of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. I find that people’s positive reactions to conflict better explain the decision to engage in politics than negative reactions to disagreements. While women report higher levels of conflict avoidance than men, gender gaps in political engagement cannot be explained by women’s greater aversion to conflict. Instead, gender gaps are better understood as a product of men’s comparatively higher levels of enjoyment of arguments and disagreements.
Requests for a favor: The person being asked rewards effort put into asking; arguments of efficiency increase of giving convince only men; women give more when being reminded of their power & responsibility
Getting a Yes. An Experiment on the Power of Asking. Lisa Bruttel, Florian Stolley. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, May 7 2020, 101550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101550
Highlights
• We study arguments that make the request for a favor successful.
• Explaining why the favor is needed increases giving.
• The person being asked rewards effort put into asking.
• Arguments referring to an efficiency increase of giving convince only men.
• Women give more when being reminded of their power and responsibility.
Abstract: This paper studies how the request for a favor has to be devised in order to maximize its chance of success. We present results from a mini-dictator game, in which the recipient can send a free-form text message to the dictator before the latter decides. We find that putting effort into the message, writing in a humorous way and mentioning reasons why the money is needed pays off. Additionally, we find differences in the behavior of male and female dictators. Only men react positively to efficiency arguments, while only women react to messages that emphasize the dictators power and responsibility.
Keywords: Dictator gameCommunicationInequalityText analysisExperiment
Highlights
• We study arguments that make the request for a favor successful.
• Explaining why the favor is needed increases giving.
• The person being asked rewards effort put into asking.
• Arguments referring to an efficiency increase of giving convince only men.
• Women give more when being reminded of their power and responsibility.
Abstract: This paper studies how the request for a favor has to be devised in order to maximize its chance of success. We present results from a mini-dictator game, in which the recipient can send a free-form text message to the dictator before the latter decides. We find that putting effort into the message, writing in a humorous way and mentioning reasons why the money is needed pays off. Additionally, we find differences in the behavior of male and female dictators. Only men react positively to efficiency arguments, while only women react to messages that emphasize the dictators power and responsibility.
Keywords: Dictator gameCommunicationInequalityText analysisExperiment
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
