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Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes
2021-01-10
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<p>Using a powered and incentivized experiment, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome of the lottery. We study three stake levels: 5€ (n = 177), 100€ (n = 168), and 1,000€ (n = 171). We find that individuals decrease the donated fraction of the pie as the stakes increase. However, people s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 890c0e65-f741-544a-89ed-eb43abd6d7aa
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/b79e4_v1