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Motivational crowding out effects in charitable giving : experimental evidence
Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2018
This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment isolates alternative explanations for the decline of giving such as strategic considerations of decision makers. Moreover, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796772
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Motivational Crowding Out Effects in Charitable Giving : Experimental Evidence
Müller, Stephan - 2018
This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment isolates alternative explanations for the decline of giving such as strategic considerations of decision makers. Moreover, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926525
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Saving face and group identity
Eriksson, Tor; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015
Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283153
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Other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation : an experiment
Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191396
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How inheriting affects bequest plans
Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - 2015
We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family tradition of bequeathing" as a channel through which the intention to bequeath is molded by and is positively correlated with the experience of inheriting. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349415
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Rent extraction and prosocial behavior
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2019
We present controlled experimental evidence on how rent extraction by an administrator affects giving to non-profit associations. Holding the price of giving constant, we compare contributions between two conditions: a rent extraction condition, in which an administrator can expropriate a part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064879
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How inheriting affects bequest plans
Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - 2015
We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family tradition of bequeathing" as a channel through which the intention to bequeath is moulded by and is positively correlated with the experience of inheriting. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348397
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Altruistic punishment in elections
Aimone, Jason A.; Butera, Luigi; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014
Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393636
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Altruistic Punishment in Elections
Aimone, Jason Anthony; Butera, Luigi; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021
Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315578
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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022
There has been an increasing interest in altruistic behaviour in the domain of losses recently. Nevertheless, there is no consensus in whether the monetary losses make individuals more generous or more selfish. Although almost all relevant studies rely on a dictator game to study altruistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433309