Sexual identity, gender, and anticipated discrimination in prosocial behavior

We study whether individuals strategically mask signals about their affinity with the LGBTQ+ community in response to anticipated discrimination prosocial behavior. use a sharing (dictator) game an online experiment where recipients are given opportunity signal affinity. Decision-makers, upon observing these signals, decide how much of endowment share matched recipients. Overall, there is decrease (although statistically insignificant) proportions who when they informed that will be revealed decision-makers. Importantly, we find gender difference: women more likely hide such information used. Auxiliary analysis suggests this difference due women’s higher propensity anticipate discrimination. Moreover, decision-makers do not differ treatment based on However, intersection between decision-makers’ perceptions and both political stance social issues views rights, matter shaping