Promoting helping behavior with framing in dictator games

Brañas–Garza, Pablo

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2006.10.001

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“…The mean of the 20 randomly selected female allocations was 3.2 and the standard deviation 1.73, whereas the mean male allocation was 2.45 and the standard deviation 1.96. For more details see Brañas-Garza (2007).…”

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Are women expected to be more generous?

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This paper analyzes if men and women are expected to behave differently regarding altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a modified version to study the beliefs involved in the game. Our results are substantial: men and women are expected to behave differently. Moreover, while women believe that women are more generous, men consider that women are as generous as men.We appreciate comments from Josemari Aizpurua, Shoshana Neuman and participants in seminars at Bar-Ilan University, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Univ. Publica Navarra. Tim Cason and one anonymous referee made substantial comments on the previous draft. Financial support from CICYT (SEJ2007-62081/ECON and SEJ2006-00959/SOCI) and FCEA (SOC2.05/43) is gratefully acknowledge. Martha Gaustad revised the English grammar. Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (http://dx

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“…Since dictators have no incentives to give money, a payoff-maximising dictator would donate nothing. For this reason, dictators' donations are taken as a measure of individual's altruism, or inequity aversion (Fehr and Schmidt (1999); Bolton and Ockenfels (2000); Brañas-Garza (2006, 2007; Charness and Gneezy (2008)). …”

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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk: Expectations and Actual Behaviour

Brañas–Garza

Capraro²,

Rascón

2018

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Previous research shows that women are more altruist than men in dictator game experiments. Yet, little is known whether women are expected to be more altruist than men. Here we elicit third-parties' beliefs about dictators' donations conditional on knowing the gender of the dictator. Our data provide evidence of three main findings: (i) women are expected to be more altruist than men; (ii) both men and women have correct beliefs about the level of altruism among men; and (iii) both men and women overestimate the level of altruism among women. In doing so, our results uncover a perception gap according to which, although women are more altruist than men, they are expected to be even more altruist than they actually are.

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“…Therefore, the higher number of friends they would list, the lower the chance of bene…ting any particular one. 7 Given our speci…c elicitation protocol, we may be capturing the network of people who would like to bene…t each other. As a result, we do not capture links to friends whom our subjects would not like to see bene…ted, while we might capture links to people our experimental subjects would like to bene…t without being friends.…”

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Altruism and social integration

Brañas–Garza

Cobo-Reyes

Espinosa

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Games and Economic Behavior

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We report on a two-stage experiment in which i) we first elicit the social network within a section of undergraduate students and ii) we then measure their altruistic attitudes by means of a standard Dictator game. We observe that more socially integrated subjects are also more altruistic, as betweenness centrality and reciprocal degree are positively correlated with the level of giving, even after controlling for framing and social distance, which have been shown to significantly affect giving in previous studies. Our findings suggest that social distance and social integration are complementary determinants of altruistic behavior

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Promoting helping behavior with framing in dictator games

Cited by 155 publications

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Are women expected to be more generous?

Are women expected to be more generous?

Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk: Expectations and Actual Behaviour

Altruism and social integration

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