Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility
- 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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| Author details: | Lisa Verena BruttelORCiDGND, Florian StolleyORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-473068 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-47306 |
| ISSN: | 1867-5808 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe |
| Subtitle (English): | Framing effects in a dictator game |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe (135) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/12/22 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2020/12/22 |
| Tag: | dictator game; experiment; framing; gender |
| Issue: | 135 |
| Number of pages: | 18 |
| Source: | Games 9(2018) 2, 28; DOI: 10.3390/g9020028 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 51 Mathematik / 510 Mathematik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
