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 …

depending on the dictator’s gender. We find that only men react positively to a text that stresses their responsibility for the … receiver, while only women seem to react positively to a text that emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice. …

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

A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …. Most experimental economics research has found that women are more generous than men. Evidence also suggests that gender … homegrown, we replicate the finding. When expectations of receiving are uniform rather than homegrown, gender differences in …

whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play …

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

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

There is substantial evidence that women tend to support different policies and political candidates than men. Many … studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition and … pro-sociality. However, the degree to which differential voting by men and women is related to these gaps in more basic …

In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group … charity . The choice of donation values over time shows strong persistence such that the difference between the two groups …