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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2012
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of …
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...
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The Early Life Influences of Teachers' Genders on Later Life Charitable Giving : Evidence from the Natural Disasters in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - 2019
What determines human beings' decisions to donate money to a charity? Using a nationally representative survey of the Japanese population, we demonstrate that having been taught by a female teacher in their first year of school makes individuals more likely to donate to charities following...
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas - 2020
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a...
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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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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental design with three treatments: (i) one, T1, where the...
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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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Nudging Generosity : Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving
Schulz, Jonathan - 2017
In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of two different choice architectures on donation decisions. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities; in the control group we do not provide a list. In...
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Market Design for Altruistic Supply : Evidence from the Lab
Slonim, Robert - 2016
Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers' inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
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