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 …

monetary contexts. -- Altruism ; generosity ; harm ; experiment …

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 …

the loss of flexibility, gift restrictions are costly to the recipient nonprofit. Using an economic experiment, we study …

differ between the pre-Christmas shopping season and summer. Our experiment aims to minimize confounding factors and controls … design of fundraising campaigns …

) distinguishes three basic categories of motives underlying the act of giving: altruism, egoism and investment. The paper follows on …

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