Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Jonathan E. Alevy
Author-Name-First: Jonathan 
Author-Name-Last: Alevy
Author-Email:  jalevy@uaa.alaska.edu 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage 
Author-Name:  Francis L. Jeffries
Author-Name-First: Francis
Author-Name-Last: Jeffries
Author-Email: fljeffries@uaa.alaska.edu 
Author-Workplace-Name: College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage 
Author-Name:  Yonggang Lu
Author-Name-First: Yonggang
Author-Name-Last: Lu
Author-Email: ylu4@uaa.alaska.edu 
Author-Workplace-Name: College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage 
Title:  Gender- and Frame-specific Audience Effects in Dictator Games 
Abstract: We study dictator allocations using a 2x2 experimental design that varies the level of anonymity 
and the choice set, allowing observation of audience effects in both give and take frames. Changes in the 
distribution of responses across treatment cells allow us to distinguish among alternative motives as 
elaborated in recent theory. We observe significant audience effects that vary by both frame and gender.  
The pattern of responses suggests that heterogeneous concerns for reputation and self-signaling across 
gender give rise to the contextual effects associated with the give and take frames that have previously been observed in the literature . 
Creation-date: 2013-10 
File-URL: http://www.econpapers.uaa.alaska.edu/RePEC/ala/wpaper/ALA201302.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Classification-JEL: C91; C92; D01; D03.
Keywords: Dictator game; anonymity; gender; framing.
Publication-Status: forthcoming Economics Letters
Number: 2013-02
Handle: RePEc:ala:wpaper:2013-02