Gender Identification and Stake Size Effects in the Impunity Game

Anabel Doñate-Buendía, Hernan Bejarano and Aurora García-Gallego
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Anabel Doñate-Buendía: Universitat Jaume I

No 249, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: In the impunity game, a proposer offers a division of money and a responder decides whether to accept or reject the offer. If the offer is accepted, the proposer and the responder receive the amount specified in the proposal. If the offer is rejected, the responder earns nothing and the proposer keeps the money he designated for himself. Thus, the theoretical prediction of this game states that the responder should accept any offer. An experiment is designed aiming at analysing both players’ behaviour in the impunity game when subjects are aware of the gender of their partner. Additionally, we examine the effect of different stake sizes. An online experiment with eight different treatments is implemented, with a total number of 1,210 observations. The main findings are that proposers give to responders an important (around 35%) share on average, and that both the stake size and gender identification influence their decisions. Moreover, responders’ rejection patterns follow the game theoretical prediction, although the hypothesis that knowing your counterpart sex/gender affects responders’ behaviour cannot be rejected. Finally, subjects’ behaviour in this game is found to be determined by their personality and psychopathy traits, as well as by their emotional intelligence level. Other sociodemographic characteristics like place of birth or their employment status are found to also influence their decisions.

Keywords: impunity game; experiment; gender identification; stake size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C88 C90 D63 D64 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2023-06
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Working Paper: Gender identification and stake size effects in the Impunity Game (2022)
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