Collaboration and gender focality in stag hunt bargaining
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Collaboration and gender focality in stag hunt bargaining
zbMATH Open document ID: 1479.91151
author: Geraldine Guarin
author: J. Jobu Babin
published in: Games
publication date: 2021-11-26T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Knowing the gender of a counterpart can be focal in the willingness to collaborate in team settings that resemble the classic coordination problem. This paper explores whether knowing a co-worker's gender affects coordination on the mutually beneficial outcome in a socially risky environment. In an experimental setting, subjects play a one-shot stag hunt game framed as a collaborative task in which they can ``work together'' or ``work alone''. We exogenously vary whether workers know the gender of their counterparts pre-play. When gender is revealed, female players tend to gravitate to collaboration and efficient coordination regardless of the knowledge. Males, when knowingly paired with another male, tend to collaborate less, and thus, are less likely to coordinate on the Pareto optimal outcome. These results demonstrate one way that gender focality can lead to inefficient outcomes and provide insight for organizations looking to induce collaboration among workers.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B26
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A90
zbMATH DE Number: 7434038
zbMATH Keywords: stag hunt
zbMATH Keywords: gender
zbMATH Keywords: coordination
zbMATH Keywords: focality
zbMATH Keywords: teamwork
zbMATH Keywords: collaboration
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: g12020039
OpenAlex ID: W3159197984
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DOI: 10.3390/G12020039
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7434038