Altruism and Gender in the Trust Game

Alessandro Innocenti () and Maria Grazia Pazienza

Labsi Experimental Economics Laboratory University of Siena from University of Siena

Abstract: This paper analyses gender differences in the trust game. Our experiment implements the triadic design proposed by Cox (2004) to discriminate between transfers resulting from trust or trustworthiness and transfers resulting from altruistic preferences. We observe that women exhibit a higher degree of altruism than men for both trust and trustworthiness but relatively more for trustworthiness. This result provides an explanation to the experimental finding that women reciprocate more than men.

Keywords: gender differences; trust; trustworthiness; altruism; gender pairing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 C91 D64 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-exp and nep-soc
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