Ethnic disparity in altruism towards reforestation: A social preference experiment in Mindoro, Philippines

Imelda Revilla Molina (), Katelyn Castillo () and Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon ()
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Imelda Revilla Molina: University of the Philippines, Los Baños - College of Economics and Management
Katelyn Castillo: University of the Philippines, Los Baños - College of Economics and Management
Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon: CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics

No 2021:5, CERE Working Papers from CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics

Abstract: We conduct a framed field experiment in Mindoro, Philippines on ecological altruism. Behavioral differences between ethnic groups in Mindoro, the Tagalogs and the Mangyans, were investigated. We design a two-part donation task (i.e. dictator game) where the recipient of the donation is a local reforestation project. There were two treatments: They played either the giving game (GG) or the taking game (TG). In the first part, in GG, respondents were asked how much they will donate towards reforestation, while respondents in TG were asked how much money they will take away from the project and keep for themselves. The second part was the same as the first; but participants were asked what they will do if a hypothetical partner, who was either the same or different ethnicity as theirs, donated half of the initial endowment to reforestation. Results indicate that Mangyans, who are predominantly farmers, tend to give more in the TG than the GG. Tagalog respondents were not sensitive to framing. Finally, other-ethnicity dynamics did not have a strong effect.

Keywords: deforestation; ethnic differences; behavioral experiment; environmental economics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2021-03-10
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