Abstract

<p>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 effects 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.</p>

Highlights

  • Numerous experimental and theoretical studies have examined and analyzed other-regarding versus self-interested behavior (e.g., Bolton and Ockenfels, 2000; Camerer, 2003; Fehr and Schmidt, 1999; Rabin, 1993)

  • Using a binary measure of whether a dictator gave away a positive amount or not as the dependent variable and gender as the independent variable, logit regressions did not yield any significant gender effect in any of these three treatments either

  • We were unable to explain the reason that EG found females to be more generous than males, while BK did not

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C Bram Cadsby

Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ryerson.ca/trsitm Part of the Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons. C Bram; Servátka, Marošš; and Song, Fei, "Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?" (2009). Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management Publications and Research. October 21, 2009 Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?

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