CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Kiss, Csilla Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | Trust and Reciprocity - The Recipients' Endowment Generating Effort and its Effect on Endowment Division in a Real Effort Dictator Game |
| Summary | In this thesis, social preferences are analyzed: I evaluate the gender differences in willingness to exert and to appreciate effort in a workplace setting, via a real effort dictator game experiment (i.e. the size of the endowment depends on the recipient’s effort). The recipient was labeled ‘worker’ and the dictator was called ‘employer’ in order to contextualize the experiment as an employment situation. Women earned more on average, which might be interpreted as having greater trust in the employers and in their willingness to return a large share of the earnings. The employers’ strategy for dividing the amount of money generated is also analyzed in order to draw conclusions about typical patterns for the two genders by controlling for being a student as opposed to a working professional, self-confidence, working or studying in a scientific field and age – variables that were found to be important in order to isolate gender differences. According to the results, women are more willing to give larger shares to the recipients on average. They are also less likely to apply a progressive payment structure that increases with the relative effort level: they do not particularly appreciate extra effort by giving a relatively larger share to those who exerted a lot of effort compared to the average. |
| Supervisor | Andrzej Baniak |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/kiss_csilla02.pdf |
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