Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility -- framing effects in a dictator game (Q1651909)
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Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility -- framing effects in a dictator game (English)
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10 July 2018
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Summary: This paper studies the effects of two different frames on decisions in a dictator game. Before making their allocation decision, dictators read a short text. Depending on the treatment, the text either emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice or it stresses their responsibility for the receiver's payoff. Including a control treatment without such a text, three treatments are conducted with a total of 207 dictators. Our results show a different reaction to these texts depending on the dictator's gender. We find that only men react positively to a text that stresses their responsibility for the receiver, while only women seem to react positively to a text that emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice.
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dictator game
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framing
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gender
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experiment
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