Gender and preferences in a random sample - A combined experiment and survey study focusing on gender and economic preferences

The data is from an experimental study of a simple random sample of about 1000 adults from the Swedish population. The sample is similar by gender, age, income and education to this population. In addition, we have a high response rate, and can detect no differences between non-response and response groups by the comparison variables we have access to. In all relevant respects, we have a representative sample of the Swedish population, and one of the larger samples in the experimental economics literature. The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences in a wide range of economic preferences in a representative sample. We will use a battery of standard games typically used in experimental economics and psychology, as well as common measures of risk preferences, competitiveness and time preferences. We will explore the same games and measures in three contexts, i.e with three settings, designed to explore different aspects of potential gender differences. These three settings will be investigated using three different treatments for each game and measure. The experimental data measures preferences in a broad range of standard incentivized decisions related to altruism, fairness, cooperation, trust, coordination, risk and competitiveness. Different treatments vary the salience of the participant’s own gender, as well as the gender of the counterpart. While gender differences in previous experimental studies typically are studied without controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, we have data on age, gender income and education and other sociodemographic variables. The survey is an OSU of the Swedish population aged 18-73 years from 2011-08-19. It has been implemented by two methods, telephone interviews and distribution of printed questionnaires. Of the sample, 2349 respondents answered by telephone and 800 respondents answered by postal questionnaire.本数据集源自一项针对瑞典人群约1000名成年人的简单随机抽样实验研究。该样本在性别、年龄、收入与教育维度上均与瑞典总体人口特征匹配。此外，本次调查的应答率较高，且通过可获取的对比变量未发现无应答组与应答组间存在显著差异。从各相关维度来看，本样本为瑞典人口的代表性样本，同时也是实验经济学（experimental economics）领域学术文献中规模较大的样本之一。 本研究旨在通过代表性样本，探究多维度经济偏好中的性别差异。我们将采用实验经济学与心理学领域通用的成套标准博弈范式，以及风险偏好、竞争倾向与时间偏好的常用测量工具。本次研究将在三类情境下实施相同的博弈与测量任务，三类情境的设置旨在挖掘潜在性别差异的不同维度；针对每类博弈与测量工具，我们将通过三种不同的处理方式对这三类情境分别开展探究。 本实验数据涵盖了与利他主义、公平偏好、合作行为、信任行为、协调博弈、风险与竞争倾向相关的多类标准激励型决策（incentivized decisions）场景，以此测量各类偏好。不同处理方式会调整参与者自身性别以及互动对象性别的凸显程度。过往实验研究中，性别差异的考察通常未控制社会人口学特征（sociodemographic characteristics）变量，而本研究已获取年龄、性别、收入、教育程度及其他社会人口学变量的相关数据。 本次调查针对2011年8月19日时年龄介于18至73岁的瑞典人群开展OSU调查，调查采用两种实施方式：电话访谈与纸质问卷发放。 最终样本中，共有2349名受访者通过电话访谈完成作答，另有800名受访者通过邮寄问卷完成作答。