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

Charles Bram Cadsby (), Maroš Servátka () and Fei Song

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

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)
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Date: 2009-10-23

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