Altruism and Social Integration

Pablo Brañas Garza, Ramón Cobo Reyes, Maria Paz Espinosa, Natalia Jiménez (), Jaromír Kovářík and Giovanni Ponti ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Ramon Cobo-Reyes and Pablo Brañas-Garza

No 6414, DFAEII Working Papers from University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II

Abstract: We report on a two-stage experiment in which i) we first elicit the social network within a section of undergraduate students and ii) we then measure their altruistic attitudes by means of a standard Dictator game. We observe that more socially integrated subjects are also more altruistic, as betweenness centrality and reciprocal degree are positively correlated with the level of giving, even after controlling for framing and social distance, which have been shown to significantly affect giving in previous studies. Our findings suggest that social distance and social integration are complementary determinants of altruistic behavior.

Keywords: altruism; centrality; social network experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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