Gender- and frame-specific audience effects in dictator games

Jonathan Alevy (), Francis L. Jeffries and Yonggang Lu

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 122, issue 1, 50-54

Abstract: We study dictator allocations using a 2×2 experimental design that varies the level of anonymity and the choice set, allowing observation of audience effects in both give and take frames. Changes in the distribution of responses across treatment cells allow us to distinguish among alternative motives as elaborated in recent theory. We observe significant audience effects that vary by both frame and gender. The pattern of responses suggests that heterogeneous concerns for reputation and self-signaling across gender give rise to the contextual effects associated with the give and take frames that have previously been observed in the literature.

Keywords: Dictator game; Anonymity; Gender; Framing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D01 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (12)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176513004771
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Gender- and Frame-specific Audience Effects in Dictator Games (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:122:y:2014:i:1:p:50-54

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.10.030

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().