Ek, Claes
- Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
Donation matching and other directed interventions to encourage prosocial contributions may affect contributions through other channels. In an experimental dictator game where subjects may donate to two different real-world charities, we simulate activity-specific interventions by varying the relative productivity of those charities, and introduce several treatments to test whether (i) subjects substitute across charities, and (ii) whether substitution occurs even across (possibly very) dissimilar alternatives. We find that significant substitution occurs in all cases, but that the effect is weaker the more dissimilar the charity alternatives. In our most dissimilar treatment, substitution is only half as large as when alternatives are very similar. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Nyckelord
Charitable giving; Dictator game; Public goods; Prosocial behavior
Publicerad i
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
2017, volym: 136, sidor: 45-62
Utgivare: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
SLU författare
UKÄ forskningsämne
Nationalekonomi
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.01.007
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/82816