Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young - In: Journal of Public Economics 118 (2014) C, pp. 143-150
We investigate the consequences of a pure income effect on the altruistic behavior of donors. Inequality aversion theories predict either no effect or a decrease in giving, whereas impure altruism theory predicts an increase in giving with an increase in the common income of donor and receiver....