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We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation …
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We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a … within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we …
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-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we …
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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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dictator's donation crowds out one-for-one a donation by the experimenters, which aims at measuring warm glow giving, (iii) a …
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Part of why people give is because doing so sends a positive signal about the giver. The intended audience may be another person or the giver herself, yet the relative importance of social-signaling versus self-signaling is unclear. Using the predictions of a model of a preference-signaling...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057045
(implemented as donations to a charity) lead to the typical pattern of moral licensing: the presence of a first donation lowers the … second donation. However, we find that this decrease merely represents a form of substitution between different opportunities … first donation, but on average individuals respond with positive donations to each additional ask, meaning that asking more …
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dictator's donation crowds out one-for-one a donation by the experimenters, which aims at measuring warm glow giving, (iii) a …
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Why do people give when asked, but prefer not to be asked, and even take when possible? We show that standard behavioral axioms including separability, narrow bracketing, and scaling invariance predict these seemingly inconsistent observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that...
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