• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
  • Contributor: Wilhelm, Mark [Author]; Vesterlund, Lise [Other]; Xie, Huan [Other]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2014]
  • Published in: NBER Working Paper ; No. w20497
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (37 p)
  • Language: English
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 2014 erstellt
  • Description: The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it cannot identify the strength of warm glow and altruism preferences. These limitations are addressed with a new design that elicits crowd-out at a low and at a high level of giving-by-others. Consistent with impure altruism we find decreasing crowd-out as giving-by-others increases. However warm glow is weak in our experiment and altruism largely explains why people give
  • Access State: Open Access