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Altruism and Gender in the Trust Game Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Alessandro Innocenti ()
Maria Grazia Pazienza ()
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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.
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Keywords: gender differences ; trust ; trustworthiness ; altruism ; gender pairing ; Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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