Allowing for a free choice of the recipient’s gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …

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 …

In a within-subjects experiment we test the relation of risk preferences and charitable giving. Women not only give … findings of gender differences in charitable giving may be explained by risk-tolerant women donating more. … levels. We find no such correlation for men. Men and relative risk-averse women do not differ in donations. Thus, common …

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

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. …

experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …

experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …

framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators’ prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …