Showing 1 - 10 of 498
-oriented consumers learn their moral responsibility by observing others' behavior, social interaction in contribution behavior arises …. However, since moral responsibility is a burden, duty-oriented consumers may be less willing to accept responsibility if their … responsibility is a major determinant for reported recycling; that responsibility ascription is influenced by beliefs about others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219104
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291218
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
that highlights two predictions. First, larger gift amounts, holding education and income constant, is a proxy for altruism …). Second, those motivated by altruism will respond positively to appeals based on evidence, whereas those motivated by warm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338773
Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410448
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080136
Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320615
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735980
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751333