Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne; Baum, Sandy - In: Feminist Economics 14 (2008) 3, pp. 23-50
This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …