Gender differences in dictator giving: a high-power laboratory test

Iván Barreda-Tarrazona (), Ainhoa Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Marina Pavan () and Gerardo Sabater-Grande ()
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Marina Pavan: LEE & Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón-Spain
Gerardo Sabater-Grande: LEE and Department of Economics, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

No 2024/03, Working Papers from Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain)

Abstract: We gather information from a large laboratory sample comprising 1161 subjects and study gender differences in altruism using a dual-role dictator game. For robustness purposes, we control for factors potentially affecting the role of gender in dictator giving, such as the subject's age, cognitive ability, and personality traits, together with the dictator's response time and self-reported emotions motivating the decision. We find that women behave in a significantly more generous way than men: after controlling for the factors mentioned above, females transfer 7.5 percentage points more of their endowment than males. The only factor moderating this relationship between gender and dictator giving is agreeableness, which increases transfers significantly more for males than for females.

Keywords: altruism; gender differences; dictator game; big five personality traits; cognitive ability; emotions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2024
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