Giving versus taking for a cause

Philip Grossman and Catherine Eckel

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 132, issue C, 28-30

Abstract: This study focuses on subjects’ willingness to give to and take from a charity. We implement a “real donation” Dictator Game with initial endowments allocated in one of two ways: all to the subjects or all to the charity. Subjects are allowed to redistribute the endowments as they wish. We find that the initial allocation is irrelevant; final donations to the charities are nearly identical, in sharp contrast to similar research with an anonymous student recipient. Our findings imply that such framing no longer matters when a charity is substituted for an anonymous individual in the dictator setting.

Keywords: Giving; Taking; Charity; Altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D64 H4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.002

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