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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk … tolerance and patience in intertemporal choice increase, in general, the level of donations, albeit the effects are non …
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intensive margins of donations, are of short duration and are limited to less than one year. This supports the prevalent …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk … tolerance and patience in intertemporal choice increase, in general, the level of donations, albeit the effects are non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086478
Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims … donations into different types of philanthropy, with charitable contributions to caring, needy and religious organizations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269714
We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it. This effect persists when considering pivotal votes...
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We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the UK, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 respondents in Prolific, representative of the UK population with regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental...
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Donations and unpaid working are two important forms of non-market activities that are usually considered separately in … negative link. - No effect can be discerned, based on an honorary office, for payments to unrelated individuals. - Donations to …
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The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of … philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … widespread, but the amounts of donations are unequally distributed. Furthermore, donations are positively related to a company …
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We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims … donations into different types of philanthropy, with charitable contributions to caring, needy and religious organizations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565189