Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*

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Autor(a) principal: Batista, Cátia
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Silverman, Dan, Yang, Dean
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11055
Resumo: We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option of giving in kind (in the form of goods), compared to giving that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources. Standard economic determinants such as the rate of return to giving and the size of the endowment also affect giving, but the effects of even large changes in these determinants are significantly smaller than the effect of the in-kind option. Our results support theories of giving where the utility of givers depends on the composition (not just the level) of gift-recipient expenditures, and givers thus seek control over transferred resources.
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spelling Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*sharingaltruismgivingdictator gameinter-household transfersMozambiqueWe investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option of giving in kind (in the form of goods), compared to giving that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources. Standard economic determinants such as the rate of return to giving and the size of the endowment also affect giving, but the effects of even large changes in these determinants are significantly smaller than the effect of the in-kind option. Our results support theories of giving where the utility of givers depends on the composition (not just the level) of gift-recipient expenditures, and givers thus seek control over transferred resources.International Growth Centre (IGC), Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI)Nova SBERUNBatista, CátiaSilverman, DanYang, Dean2014-01-20T15:34:31Z2013-072013-07-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/11055eng2183-0843info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T03:45:19Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/11055Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:20:00.509289Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
title Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
spellingShingle Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
Batista, Cátia
sharing
altruism
giving
dictator game
inter-household transfers
Mozambique
title_short Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
title_full Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
title_fullStr Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
title_full_unstemmed Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
title_sort Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
author Batista, Cátia
author_facet Batista, Cátia
Silverman, Dan
Yang, Dean
author_role author
author2 Silverman, Dan
Yang, Dean
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Batista, Cátia
Silverman, Dan
Yang, Dean
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv sharing
altruism
giving
dictator game
inter-household transfers
Mozambique
topic sharing
altruism
giving
dictator game
inter-household transfers
Mozambique
description We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option of giving in kind (in the form of goods), compared to giving that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources. Standard economic determinants such as the rate of return to giving and the size of the endowment also affect giving, but the effects of even large changes in these determinants are significantly smaller than the effect of the in-kind option. Our results support theories of giving where the utility of givers depends on the composition (not just the level) of gift-recipient expenditures, and givers thus seek control over transferred resources.
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