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Who gives? : the roles of empathy and impulsiveness
Andreoni, James; Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2018
We investigate the impact of empathy and impulsiveness on charitable giving using a real donation experiment. We confirm that greater empathy predicts greater charitable giving. Contrary to recent literature, however, we find a significant negative relationship between impulsiveness and donation...
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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Family Structure and Income During Childhood and Subsequent Prosocial Behavior in Young Adult
Bandy, Robert; Wilhelm, Mark - Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue … - 2007
Models of young adults’ prosocial behavior—charitable giving and volunteering—are estimated as functions of family structure and income during the stages of childhood. Estimating a model of any subsequent outcome (prosocial or otherwise) as a function of stage-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135161
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755326
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A behaviorally-validated warm glow questionnaire
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Lyford, Alex; Zhang, Mingfang - 2023
incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many settings. We combine standard altruism and warm … altruism and provide an alternative method for collecting warm glow preferences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286994
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319510
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Information and belief elicitation effects on charitable giving: An artefactual field experiment
Becchetti, Leonardo; Pelligra, Vittorio - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2014
We examine by means of an artefactual field experiment on a representative sample of Italian adults, the impact of information and belief elicitation on charitable-giving when donors know (or express their beliefs on) what the organizations received in terms of aggregate donations in the past....
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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle in a Context-Rich Environment
grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012
giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that …
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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle
grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012
the question, is giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artifact of experimentation? What is unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987093
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - In: Journal of Public Economics 114 (2014) C, pp. 58-74
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni, 1989) that permits warm glow … to vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize … inefficient allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056150