Impure altruism or inequality aversion?: An experimental investigation based on income effects

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young
• 署名单位: University of East Anglia; University of East Anglia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.07.003
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 143-150
• 关键词: Altruism; Dictator-game; Income effect; impure altruism; inequality aversion

摘要

We investigate the consequences of a pure income effect on the altruistic behavior of donors. Inequality aversion theories predict either no effect or a decrease in giving, whereas impure altruism theory predicts an increase in giving with an increase in the common income of donor and receiver. Theoretical predictions being contradictory, we run a dictator game in which we vary the common show-up fee of both the dictator and the recipient, while keeping an extra amount to be shared the same. The results are in line with the prediction of the impure altruism theory. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).