Adam Smith's error? Gender and country differences in altruistic giving revealed using the Andreoni–Miller dictator game

Soo Hong Chew; Richard P. Ebstein; Salomon Israel; Zhen Lei; Wei Tang

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111059

Adam Smith's error? Gender and country differences in altruistic giving revealed using the Andreoni–Miller dictator game

Soo Hong Chew, Richard P. Ebstein, Salomon Israel, Zhen Lei, Wei Tang^*

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Department of Psychology

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Abstract

Altruistic giving is investigated using the Andreoni–Miller (2002) dictator game with 3778 participants in three populations — Chinese from Beijing and Singapore and Jews from Israel. We replicate the Andreoni–Vesterlund (2001) finding that women are more equality-focused than men. Additionally, participants from China are more generous than those from Singapore or Israel.

Original language	American English
Article number	111059
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	225
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111059
State	Published - Apr 2023

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Funding Information:
This study was supported by grants from AXA Research Fund, France , John Templeton Foundation, United States (ID: 21240 ), Ministry of Education of Singapore , National Natural Science Foundation of China (key project no. 72033006 ), and National Social Science Fund of China (no. 18BJL046 ).

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Cultural differences
Dictator games
Gender differences
Lab experiment
Social preference

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