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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …

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Private Philanthropy and the Economics of Public Radio

Brooks, Arthur C. - 2011

Public radio in the United States receives both direct and indirect government funding. Direct subsidies come in the form of lump-sum and matching grants, while indirect subsidies proceed from tax revenues foregone on deductible private donations. Each of these sources of government money...

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Waiting to Give

Craig, Ashley - 2014

We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...

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Oxytocin, empathy, altruism and charitable giving : experimental evidence from blood donations

Jukić, Irena; Kovač, Dejan; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023

altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …

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Charitable giving and intermediation

Chlaß, Nadine; Gangadharan, Lata; Jones, Kristy - 2015

Charitable donations are often made through intermediaries who can fund themselves from these same donations. Donors who purchase charitable output through an intermediary incur a principal-agent problem with unobservable prices. We compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without...

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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...

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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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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign

Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021

The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...

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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle in a Context-Rich Environment

grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012

giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that …

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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle

grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012

the question, is giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artifact of experimentation? What is unique …

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