This paper experimentally investigates the determinants of charitable giving. It focuses on the joint analysis of two prominent gender differences, i.e., disparities in dictator giving and risk taking. In a within-subjects experiment, we test the impact of risk preferences on donations. The data...

In this paper we provide experimental evidence on the relation of individual risk attitudes and subjects' aversion to favorable inequality. In a within-subjects design we expand Blanco et al.'s (2011) modified dictator game by the risk-elicitation task of Eckel and Grossman (2002). Our data show...