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 …

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 …

We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other … decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions, free-riding and efficiency concerns for girls. Gender differences are … already established at approximately age 10. They cannot be explained by gender-specific increases in other …

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …

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 …

There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher …. According to the first one, women are more generous than men and the conflicting results are due to the way preferences are … elicited (Eckel and Grossman, 2002), since women are more sensitive to "social cues" and their preferences are more "malleable …

What determines human beings' decisions to donate money to a charity? Using a nationally representative survey of the … prosocial behaviors, such as group learning. We tested our results separately for men and women, as well as on prosocial … attitude outcomes. Overall, our results suggest potential prosocial implications may arise from teacher-student gender matching …