Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment*
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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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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 |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* Batista, Cátia sharing altruism giving dictator game inter-household transfers Mozambique |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment* |
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Batista, Cátia |
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Batista, Cátia Silverman, Dan Yang, Dean |
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Silverman, Dan Yang, Dean |
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Batista, Cátia Silverman, Dan Yang, Dean |
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sharing altruism giving dictator game inter-household transfers Mozambique |
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sharing altruism giving dictator game inter-household transfers Mozambique |
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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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