Adam Smith's Error? Gender and Country Difference in Altruistic Giving Revealed Using the Andreoni-Miller Dictator Game

We use a large laboratory experimental data involving 2,118 Chinese subjects from Singapore and 1,260 Chinese subjects from Beijing and 400 Jewish subjects from Israel to investigate gender and country difference in altruistic giving using the Andreoni-Miller dictator game (AMDG). Our results replicate the original finding in Andreoni and Vesterlund (2001) about females being more equality focused in having a more inelastic giving curve compared to males in all three samples. Chinese subjects from Beijing are more generous than Chinese subjects from Singapore and subjects from Israel. Subjects from Israel have a more inelastic giving curve than Chinese subjects from Singapore.