Are women expected to be more generous?

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas Garza, Pablo; Jiménez, Natalia; Miller, Luis

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31507

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Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica

Materia

Dictator game

Beliefs

Expectations

Generosity

Gender

Fecha

2007

Referencia bibliográfica

Aguiar, F.; Brañas-Garza, P.; Jiménez, N.; Miller, L. Are women expected to be more generous?. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2007). (The Papers; 07/08). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31507]

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Financial support is gratefully acknowledge by Spanish Ministry SEJ2007-62081/ECON, Junta de Andalucia P07-02547 and CEA (SOCH2.05/43).

Resumen

This paper analyzes if men and women are expected to behave dif- ferently regarding altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a modi.ed version to study the beliefs involved in the game. Our results are substantial: men and women are expected to behave di¤er- ently. Moreover, while women believe that women are more generous, men consider women as generous as men.

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