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Self-image and moral balancing: An experimental analysis

Ploner, Matteo; Regner, Tobias - 2013

In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the endowment (low/high) in a subsequent dictator game. In one treatment the experimenter is present and no cheating is possible, while in another subjects can enter the result of the roll themselves. Moral...

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If the worst comes to the worst: Dictator giving when recipient´s endowments are risky

Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015

Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient...

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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Erkut, Hande - 2018

Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...

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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011

towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …

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Some Causes are More Equal than Others? Behavioral Spillovers in Charitable Giving

Ek, Claes - 2015

productivity of the charities varied. We hypothesize, first, that an increase in the productivity of one charity will `crowd out …' contributions to the other charity. Second, we introduce several treatments to test whether crowding occurs even across (possibly … more dissimilar are the charity alternatives. In our most dissimilar treatment, it is only half as large as when …

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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study

O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015

There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...

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Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017

We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...

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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017

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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...

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Experimental evidence of self-image concerns as motivation for giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012

themselves and a passive recipient that is either a charity or the experimenter. When making these decisions subjects are …

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