Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?

Charles Cadsby, Maroš Servátka and Fei Song

Working Papers in Economics from University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance

Abstract: Employing a two-by-two factorial design that manipulates whether dictator groups are single or mixed-sex and whether procedures are single or double-blind, we examine gender effect in a standard dictator game. No gender effect was found in any of the experimental treatments. Moreover, neither single- versus mixed-sex groups nor level of anonymity had any impact on either male or female behavior.

Keywords: Anonymity; dictator game; experiment; gender; generosity; group composition; other-regarding; selfish (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2009-10-23
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Journal Article: Gender and generosity: does degree of anonymity or group gender composition matter? (2010)
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