Are women expected to be more generous? Aguiar, Fernando Brañas Garza, Pablo Jiménez, Natalia Miller, Luis Dictator game Beliefs Expectations Generosity Gender 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. 2014-05-02T09:04:19Z 2014-05-02T09:04:19Z 2007 report 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] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31507 eng The Papers;07/08 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica