Abstract
We use a charitable experiment to study altruistic motivations among children living in Mumbai, India. Using structural estimation of the utility function, we disentangle warm-glow and pure altruism motives. In light of historical clashes between Hindu and Muslim religious groups, we further study whether those motivations change when the beneficiary is of the same or different religious identity. We find that warm-glow is the most important motivation. However, this motive is less important for teenagers who display a relatively higher degree of pure altruistic preferences than younger children. Participants show a higher degree of warm-glow and total altruism towards outgroup than in-group members. Other factors such as religiosity and father's altruistic giving are positively correlated with the relative degree of warm-glow giving.