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Gender Effects in Dictator Game Giving: Women Favour Female Recipients
Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872079
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The Pledging Puzzle : How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2019
donors, such as expressions of gratitude. In an experiment, we find that offering the option to pledge gifts induces self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858200
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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving
Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291832
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Does Online Salience Predict Charitable Giving? Evidence from SMS Text Donations
Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberley; Talavera, Sasha; Vi, … - 2021
We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312627
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Preferences for consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011
principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277353
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Generosity Across Contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500434
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The Pledging Puzzle: How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2019
donors, such as expressions of gratitude. In an experiment, we find that offering the option to pledge gifts induces self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179764
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Giving in the Face of Risk
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016
interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584886
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Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in Stem Participation
Brenoe, Anne Ardila - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861442
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More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK
Almunia, Miguel - 2019
This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861453