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Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
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so. We find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health …
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We present controlled experimental evidence on how rent extraction by an administrator affects giving to non-profit associations. Holding the price of giving constant, we compare contributions between two conditions: a rent extraction condition, in which an administrator can expropriate a part...
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cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism, saving for one’s descendants benefits present members of other dynasties. These …
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Guided by Bem’s (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e ….g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism “now” and … show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving “later”; that is, altruism begets altruism …
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and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …
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jointly elicit risk preferences and preferences for altruism. Consistent with theory, we find that the standard simplifying … assumptions about risk preferences lead to significantly biased estimates of altruism. This is particularly problematic when … comparing altruism across relevant sub-groups, such as gender and wealth, leading to possibly erroneous conclusions about which …
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"warm glow", reputational concerns and (impure) altruism are important determinants of giving. Moreover, the unobservable …
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Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...
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This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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