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Are Survey measures of Trust Correlated with Experimental Trust? Empirical Evidence from Cameroon
We analyze the correlation between survey-based measures of trust and behavior in the Trust Game in two villages in Cameroon. Some participants play the Trust Game with people from their own village, and others with people ...
Giving to Africa and Perceptions of Poverty
We conduct a simple experiment in which student participants are invited to give some of the money that they have earned to an international development charity. In different treatments, participants are given different ...
Bilateral foreign aid: How important is aid effectiveness to people for choosing countries to support?
We conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to determine how important aid effectiveness is to people relative to other criteria for choosing countries to support with bilateral foreign aid. We find that aid effectiveness ...
Alcohol Expenditure, Generosity and Empathy
Existing studies suggest that alcohol dependency (or recovery from alcohol dependency) is associated with lower levels of empathy and generosity. We present results from a charitable donation experiment which shows that ...
When does it matter how you ask? Cross-subject heterogeneity in framing effects in a charitable donation experiment
In this paper we present results from an experiment that draws on insights from economics on different possible incentives for generosity and insights from social psychology on different possible personality types. Firstly, ...
In Search of Competitive Givers
Much of the theoretical and experimental research on charitable giving allows for three main types of donor: pure altruists, impure altruists, and pure warm-glow givers. For none of these types should donations be increasing ...