We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between … themselves and a passive recipient that is either a charity or the experimenter. When making these decisions subjects are … by altruism toward the recipient. We argue that opting out indicates that giving is also motivated by self-image concerns. …

third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two … intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental …

experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …

donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure … volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity …

report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. … England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables estimates reveal large returns for both men and women. However, the … returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison …