Replication data for: Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm; Lise Vesterlund; Huan Xie

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Project Citation:

Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark, Vesterlund, Lise, and Xie, Huan. Replication data for: Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113005V1

Project Description

Summary: Researchers measure crowd-out around one level of charity output to identify whether giving is motivated by altruism and/or warm-glow. However, crowd-out depends on output, implying first that the power to reject pure altruism varies, and second that a single measurement of incomplete crowd-out can be rationalized by many different preferences. By instead measuring crowd-out at different output levels, we allow both for identification and for a novel and direct test of impure altruism. Using a new experimental design, we present the first empirical evidence that, consistent with impure altruism, crowd-out decreases with output.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
L31 Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship

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