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Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Intertemporal Altruism

Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others – it is consequence-dated – or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...

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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Lacetera, Nicola - 2015

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to … these two estimates to quantify the portion of giving in T3 due to pure altruism and find it to be between 20% and 26% of …

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The Shape of Warm Glow : Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?

Gauriot, Romain - 2018

's common restrictions on the curvature of the decision-makers utility function can dramatically bias the altruism parameter. We … show that this is particularly problematic when comparing altruism between groups with well-documented differences in risk …

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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...

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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Bauer, Michal - 2011

Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...

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Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?

Jacobsen, Karin - 2011

different degrees of altruism …

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Experimental Evidence of Self-Image Concerns as Motivation for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2012

by altruism toward the recipient. We argue that opting out indicates that giving is also motivated by self-image concerns …

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