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In-Group Cooperation and Gender: Evidence from an Interdisciplinary Study

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Global Economics and Management: Transition to Economy 4.0

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Wide range of group factors is of particular interest since they are the most significant reason for the differentiation of human economic behavior between two poles—altruism and egoism. This study presented the results of experiments aimed to investigate how group composition (heterogeneous vs. homogeneous in terms of a group members’ gender) affected cooperation and group outcome. Applying the methodology of experimental economics and social psychology, we found that heterogeneous groups were most effective in terms of cooperation.

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This research was supported by The Tomsk State University competitiveness improvement program.

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  1. Laboratory of Experimental Methods in Cognitive and Social Sciences, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation

    Anastasia Peshkovskaya, Tatiana Babkina & Mikhail Myagkov

  2. Mental Health Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russian Federation

    Anastasia Peshkovskaya

  3. Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Tatiana Babkina & Mikhail Myagkov

  4. Department of Control and Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Moscow, Russian Federation

    Tatiana Babkina

  5. Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

    Mikhail Myagkov

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  1. Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

    Mikhail Kaz

  2. Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

    Tatiana Ilina

  3. Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus

    Gennady A. Medvedev

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Peshkovskaya, A., Babkina, T., Myagkov, M. (2019). In-Group Cooperation and Gender: Evidence from an Interdisciplinary Study. In: Kaz, M., Ilina, T., Medvedev, G. (eds) Global Economics and Management: Transition to Economy 4.0. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26284-6_17

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