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 …

vivid images of the charity’s beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect. We hypothesized that the effect of an affective …. Independent treatment checks reveal opposite responses in men and women and cast some doubt on the reliability of our mainstream … treatment manipulations and assessment tools. We find no evidence for dual-process decision-making, even among women, whose …

competition between charities. Do people have a need to satisfy their demand for giving by contributing to a particular charity … relative price of giving to a randomly selected charity in the choice set by introducing a matching grant. I find weak … substitution between charities when giving to more than one charity is possible, as the donated amounts to individual charities …

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 …

Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From … data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when … sensitivity of women to the costs of generous behavior can explain most of the apparent inconsistencies in previously reported …

Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From … data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when … greater sensitivity of women to the costs of generous behavior can explain most of the apparent inconsistencies in previously …

two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value … recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …, recipients in a second experiment reveal a strong preference for pre-decision messages: Their willingnessto pay for pre …