Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In … an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with … the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient they know to have the expected value of the endowment with certainty …

The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational …

The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational …

substantially more than men, but also show an economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and donation …

considerations under uncertainty might be fundamentally different from those when no uncertainty is present. Furthermore, we find …

Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In … an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with … the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient they know to have the expected value of the endowment with certainty …

The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational …