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Eva Ranehill. Photo.

Eva Ranehill

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Eva Ranehill. Photo.

Gender and altruism in a random sample

Author

  • Anne Boschini
  • Anna Dreber
  • Emma von Essen
  • Astri Muren
  • Eva Ranehill

Summary, in English

We study gender differences in altruism in a large random sample of the Swedish population using a standard dictator game. Beside a baseline treatment we implement a priming treatment where participants are reminded of their gender, and two treatments with known male and female counterpart respectively. We find suggestive evidence that women are more altruistic than men only in the priming treatment. A post-hoc analysis using data on interviewer gender to explore gender context effects indicates that priming affects behavior only in mixed-gender contexts.

Publishing year

2018-12

Language

English

Pages

72-77

Publication/Series

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Volume

77

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2214-8043