On December 14, 2016, Professor Daniel Houser, high-end foreign expert of China Education Ministry and director of the Economic Research Center of George Mason University, was invited by Professor Rao Yulei of CSU and delivered an excellent academic report. The report was hosted by Professor Liu Yongmei, associate dean of Business School, and attended by Professor Tian Hui, Dr. Peng Diefeng, Dr. Wang Jianxin and other relevant graduate students.
Professor Daniel Houser is the director of the Economics Department and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University. Working closely with Vernon Smith, the father of experimental economics and a Nobel Prize winner in economics in 2002, his main research areas are: experimental economic methods, neuro-economics and political economics. He has also published many articles in famous international journals.
In this academic report, Professor Daniel Houser reported his paper "Revisiting gender differences in ultimatum odds: Experimental evidence from the US and China", and conducted a positive and enthusiastic academic discussion with the present teachers and students. In the context of the changes in male and female incomes, Professor Daniel Houser chose students from Shanghai Jiaotong University and George Mason University as the experimental subjects, and re-explored Solnick's (2001) point of view, and studied the performance of gender differences in the ultimatum game and the impact of cultural differences between China and the United States.The results show that gender difference does not appear to have a significant effect on the ultimatum game in the two experimental samples. At the same time, it is found that the cultural differences between China and America have significant influence on the experimental results.
During the whole report process, Dr. Peng Diefeng and Dr. Wang Jianxin, and some doctoral students actively asked questions, and discussed from the aspects of setting the experimental objectives, perfecting the experimental procedures and analyzing the experimental results. Professor Houser's rigorous learning attitude, witty and humorous explanation, patient question- answering and profound academic background deeply impressed all the teachers and students. This report by Professor Houser provides a good guide for teachers and students to carry out experimental economics research, and also lays a good foundation for further academic exchanges and cooperation.
