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| Title: | | Do women behave more reciprocally than men? Gender differences in real effort dictator games  |
| Authors: | | Heinz, Matthias Juranek, Steffen Rau, Holger A. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DICE discussion paper 24 |
| Abstract: | | We analyze dictator allocation decisions in an experiment where the recipients have to earn the pot to be divided with a real-effort task. As the recipients move before the dictators, their effort decisions resemble the first move in a trust game. Depending on the recipients' performance, the size of the pot is either high or low. We compare this real-effort treatment to a baseline treatment where the pot is a windfall gain and where a lottery determines the pot size. In the baseline treatment, reciprocity cannot play a role. We find that female dictators show reciprocity and decrease their taking-rates significantly in the real-effort treatment. This treatment effect is larger when female dictators make a decision on recipients who successfully generated a large pot compared to the case where the recipients performed poorly. By contrast, there is no treatment effect with male dictators, who generally exhibit more sefish behavior. |
| Subjects: | | Gender Reciprocity Dictator Game Real Effort |
| JEL: | | C72 C91 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | DICE Discussion Paper, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
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