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Home > Closing Gender Gaps > Economic Opportunity > Gender in Decision Making and Negotiation > Conference | Fall 2005

Women and Public Policy Program Research Seminar
Co-Sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SEMINAR CHAIR: Iris Bohnet
This seminar is supported with a grant from the Harvard University Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration
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Format: Presenter - 25 minutes; Discussant - 5 minutes; General Discussion - 15 minutes
| 8:00am | Breakfast and Welcome by Iris Bohnet |
| 8:30–9:15am | Rachel Croson and Uri Gneezy Gender Differences in Preferences: A Review of Economics Experiments [pdf] Discussant: Nava Ashraf | Chair: Iris Bohnet |
| 9:15–9:30am | Break |
| 9:30–10:15am | Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund Gender Differences in Competition and Task Choice [pdf] Discussant: Linda Babcock | Chair: Iris Bohnet |
| 10:15–10:30am | Break |
| 10:30–11:15am | Robert Slonim The Robustness of Trust and Reciprocity across a Heterogeneous Population Discussant: Stephan Meier | Chair: Hannah Riley Bowles |
| 11:15–11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am–12:15pm | Iris Bohnet and Richard Zeckhauser The Elasticity of Trust: Evidence from Kuwait, Oman, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States [pdf] Discussant: Uri Gneezy | Chair: Hannah Riley Bowles |
| 12:30–1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30–2:30pm | Keynote Address: Mahzarin Banaji Invisible Gender Bias: Powerful but Ordinary Chair: Max Bazerman |
| 2:30–2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45–3:30pm | Linda Babcock, Hannah Riley Bowles and Lei Lai It Depends Who is Asking: Social Incentives for Sex Differences in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiation [pdf] Discussant: Fiona Greig | Chair: Rachel Croson |
| 3:30–3:45pm | Break |
| 3:45–4:30pm | Adam Galinsky Power, Propensity to Negotiate, and Moving First in Competitive Interactions [pdf] Discussant: Hannah Riley Bowles | Chair: Rachel Croson |
| 4:30–4:45pm | Break |
| 4:45–5:30pm | Final discussion Chair: Iris Bohnet | Commentators: Deborah Kolb and Kathleen McGinn |
| 7:00pm | Dinner for speakers and discussants |