Are individuals more generous in loss contexts?

François Cochard (), Alexandre Flage (), Gilles Grolleau () and Angela Sutan
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François Cochard: University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CRESE EA3190
Alexandre Flage: University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CRESE EA3190

Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, vol. 55, issue 4, No 8, 845-866

Abstract: Abstract This paper reports the results of dictator experiments in which the context is varied between a loss and gain frame. In some treatments, individuals have the possibility to sort and self-select the frame they prefer. We demonstrate that higher shares are transferred to the recipient in the loss frame compared to the gain frame when the situation occurs naturally, while the opposite result holds when the participants provoke themselves the situation. Our main result can be attributed primarily to a gender effect, i.e. female participants acting more generously in loss frames.

Date: 2020
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