A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation - rather than its benefits - are ambiguous. However, the importance of …

We investigate the impact of empathy and impulsiveness on charitable giving using a real donation experiment. We … negative relationship between impulsiveness and donation behavior. Specifically, when financial resources are scarce, donations … confirm that greater empathy predicts greater charitable giving. Contrary to recent literature, however, we find a significant …

char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges, dishonest proposers can turn the bargaining power to their advantage …

substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary …

We run a modified dictator game experiment to investigate the determinants of donation choices to philanthropic …

observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that interdependence of preferences ("altruism") results from concerns for the …-givers, altruistic givers, or social pressure givers and use welfare-based altruism to reliably predict giving, sorting, and taking …

preferences admit a generalized prospect-theoretical utility representation reminiscent of fairnessbased altruism. As in prospect …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …