Which is the Fair Sex? Gender Differences in Altruism

By James Andreoni, Lise Vesterlund. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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In Demography

1. Ananish Chaudhuri
2. John A. List
3. Matthias Sutter
4. Magnus Johannesson
5. Jeffrey P. Carpenter
6. Martin G. Kocher
7. Christoph Engel
8. James Andreoni

In Gender Studies

1. John A. List
2. Jeffrey P. Carpenter
3. Patricia Funk
4. Benno Torgler
5. Lata Gangadharan
6. Muriel Niederle
7. Uri Gneezy
8. Jonathan Meer

In Safety Research

1. Matthias Sutter
2. John A. List
3. Ananish Chaudhuri
4. Ernst Fehr
5. Christoph Engel
6. Martin G. Kocher
7. Simon Gächter
8. Jeffrey P. Carpenter

Citations in the corpus

• Gender-specific starting point bias in choice experiments: Evidence from an empirical study (2008, background): “For example, authors of [ 7 ,28,40,50,77] find that women are generally more environmentally and socially concerned than men.”
• Does telling white lies signal pro-social preferences? (2015, background): “…women give more than men in the DG is reasonably well established, as the majority of studies report either this effect (Eckel & Grossmann, 1997; Andreoni & Vesterlund, 2001; Dufwenberg & Muren, 2006; Houser & Schunk, 2009; Dreber, Ellingsen, Johannesson, & Rand, 2013; Dreber, von Essen, &…”
• Gender Role Attitudes and the Labour-market Outcomes of Women across OECD Countries (2005, background): “Experimental studies in behavioural economics have noted important differences between men and women in individual attitudes towards altruism and greed (Andreoni and Vesterlund, 2001), and leadership and competitiveness (Gneezy et al., 2003).”
• Public goods experiments without confidentiality: a glimpse into fund-raising (2004, background): “First, experiments have already identified the importance of culture (Roth, Prasnikar, Okuno-Fujiwara, and Zamir, 1995), gender (Andreoni and Vesterlund, 2001; Eckel and Grossman, 2001; Eckel and Grossman, 1998), social capital (Carter and Castillo, 2002; Glaeser, Laibson, Scheinkman and Soutter,…”
• Gender and Competition (2011, background): “Although it is commonly argued that women are more altruistic than men (e.g., Croson & Gneezy 2008), Andreoni & Vesterlund (2001) find that men are more altruistic at low prices of giving, whereas the reverse holds at high prices.”
• Currency value moderates equity preference among young children (2010, neutral): “Andreoni and Versterlund (2001) found a similar gender effect for college students.”
• Going green: does it depend on education, gender or income? (2014, background): “(1974), Andreoni and Vesterlund (2001), Charness and Rabin (2002) and Falk and Fischbacher (2006)). Croson and Gneezy (2009) suggest that women are more sensitive to social cues than men. The literature also shows that there are significant gender-related differences in making financial decisions. I”
• The Demand for Punishment (2007, background): “In a 49 second related project, Andreoni and co-workers (Andreoni and Vesterlund, 2001; Andreoni and 50 Miller, 2002; Andreoni et al., 2003) empirically recover utility functions that are based on social 51 preferences.”
• Microfoundations of Social Capital (2012, neutral): “Yet, Bellemare and Kröger (2007) do not find a significant relation either to trust or trustworthiness in a Dutch sample.”
• Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena (2009, background): “It also contains information on the legislature, such as the exact duration and the reasons of early termination, and the 4Other aspects of gender differences in politics include studies of gender stereotypes of candidates (Huddie and Terklidsen, 1993; Sanbonmatsu, 2002), and their interplay with…”
• Expressive behavior in economics and politics (2010, background): “Women tend to confirm an identity indicating responsiveness to the needs of the recipient rather than the material cost of giving (Andreoni and Vesterlund, 2001).”
• The Effects of Race, Gender, and Survey Methodologies on Giving in the US (2005, background): “, Andreoni and Vesterlund, 2001; Bolton and Katok, 1995); however, race differences only lately have begun to receive serious study (O’Neill, 2001; Conley, 2000; Musick et al., 2000). We examine these effects of race and gender across different survey methodologies. Bertrand and Mullainathan (2001) ”