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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2012
This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
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Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others
Di Tella, Rafael - 2011
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of the recipient's tokens,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131979
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136354
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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism
Andreoni, James - 2010
To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids … communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between …
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Avoiding the Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117564
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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
Lacetera, Nicola - 2011
We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate, and more so the higher the value of the rewards....
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Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2011
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of peoples' self-esteem on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118425
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The Hidden Benefits of Control : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig E. - 2011
. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119950
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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
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Testing Motives for Charitable Giving : A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence
Deb, Rahul - 2012
donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …
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