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by this finding, I conduct an intertemporal donation experiment to closely investigate this moderation effect. I design … an experiment that mimics a telephone fundraiser and vary both the timing of the donation (immediate vs. delayed) and the …
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donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure … volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity …
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preferences admit a generalized prospect-theoretical utility representation reminiscent of fairnessbased altruism. As in prospect …
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observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that interdependence of preferences ("altruism") results from concerns for the …-givers, altruistic givers, or social pressure givers and use welfare-based altruism to reliably predict giving, sorting, and taking …
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Glow ; Cold Prickle ; Charity ; Altruism … giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that … we employ a real donationʺ lab experiment in a context-rich environment: contributions go to actual public goods (i …
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Gender differences in human behaviour have attracted generations of social scientists, who have explored whether males … and females act differently in domains involving competition, risk taking, cooperation, altruism, honesty, as well as many … others. Yet, little is known about gender differences in the equity-efficiency trade-off. It has been suggested that females …
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Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted … considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has … been challenged by more recent accounts, which have argued that gender differences in altruistic behaviour may be a …
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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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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic …
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