WARM-GLOW GIVING AND FREEDOM TO BE SELFISH

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Evren, Ozgur; Minardi, Stefania
• 署名单位: New Economic School; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12351
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1381-1409
• 关键词: public-goods; impure altruism; governmental transfers; private provision; preference; incentives; motivation; SANCTIONS; voluntary; charity

摘要

Warm-glow refers to prosocial behaviour that causes the actor to experience positive feelings, apart from its social implications. We study an individual who enjoys taking a prosocial action that incurs a private cost because such actions improve his social image. A private cost obtains only in the presence of a more selfish option, implying a preference for freedom to behave selfishly. We provide behavioural foundations for this model by building upon the experimental findings on motivation crowding out. Our theory distinguishes between warm-glow and other motivations for giving, and subsumes Andreoni's (1989, 1990) model of public good provision.