Generosity during COVID-19: investigating socioeconomic shocks and game framing

Lotti, Lorenzo; Pethiyagoda, Shanali

doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01200-w

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“… 63 Therefore, during the outbreak stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, people were more likely to be influenced by positive social information and examples, leading to an increase in their charitable behavior. 54 Lotti and Pethiyagoda 64 argue that during a negative socio-economic shock such as COVID-19, moral motives are more influential, which could lead to an increase in charitable behavior. However, as the pandemic subsided, the power of positive social information decreased.…”

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“…Second, people’s donation behaviors have been found to differ for different charitable funds, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. 64 This study only set one charitable fund that the participants can donate to. This design cannot eliminate the impact of the participants’ natural preferences to the given fund and investigate the different donation behaviors to different funds.…”

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Does the Power of Social Example Fade? Nudge Effect of Social Information on Individual’s Donation Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model with Three-Wave Cross-Sectional Data

Li¹,

Li²,

Li³

2023

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Purpose This study assesses how various social information influence individuals’ money donation behaviors towards charitable funds against the COVID-19 pandemic at different stages of the pandemic. It also explores the mediating role of social anxiety and the moderating role of self-control. Materials and Methods This three-wave study was conducted with online survey experiments using convenience sampling at the pandemic’s outbreak stage (April–June 2020), trough stage (February–March 2021), and resurgence stage (May 2022) in China. The nudge power of social information was measured by whether participants changed their initial money donation decisions after informed positive or negative social information. Self-report scales were used to measure levels of social anxiety (Social Interaction Anxiety Scale) and self-control (Self-Control Scale). The final data set included 1371 participants from 26 provinces of mainland China. Stata medeff package and SPSS PROCESS were used to analyze the data. Results Individuals’ initial donation behaviors did not fluctuate along with the pandemic status, but the nudge effect of social information did. From outbreak stage to trough stage, the nudge power of positive social information significantly declined, but did not significantly change again at the resurgence stage. By contrast, the nudge power of negative social information did not significantly differ between outbreak and trough stage but did significantly increase at the resurgence stage. Social anxiety played a significant mediating role in the relationship between COVID-19 status and power of social information. Moreover, self-control moderated the direct effect of COVID-19 status on power of social information and the indirect effect via social anxiety. Conclusion Our findings enrich research on the nudge power variation of social information on individuals’ donation behaviors along with the pandemic status and its potential psychological influence factors. This study also helps guide organizations to better design and carry out social information nudge mechanism.

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Does the Power of Social Example Fade? Nudge Effect of Social Information on Individual’s Donation Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model with Three-Wave Cross-Sectional Data

Li¹,

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Li³

2023

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“…A number of studies examined how Covid-19 influences altruism by collecting data at multiple times after the start of the Covid-19, the results, however, do not converge. For example, Lotti (2020) find that altruism increased in the latter in comparison to the former experiments, Alsharawy et al (2021), Heap et al (2021) from the USA and Kiss and Keller (2022) from Hungary find no significant change in altruism across multiple surveys while Brañas-Garza et al ( 2022) report altruism decreased with an increase in the Covid-19 severity in Spain.…”

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A selected literature review of the effect of Covid-19 on preferences

Umer

2023

J Econ Sci Assoc

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This article surveys the rapidly growing literature that examined the influence of Covid-19 on preferences. Based on 33 studies, the article examines how the pandemic impacted altruism, cooperation, trust, inequity aversion, risk-taking, and patience/time discounting. Even though the survey suggests the effect of the pandemic on preferences is heterogeneous, some noticeable patterns can be observed in the literature. First, in the case of incentivized preference elicitation, there is weak evidence that the pandemic positively influenced altruism and had no significant impact on time preferences or patience. Second, many studies that used balanced panel data and incentivized preference elicitation mechanisms do not find a significant effect of the pandemic on preferences. Last, studies that used unincentivized methods to elicit preferences show relatively higher variability in results when compared to the studies that used incentivized methods for preference elicitation. The organized synthesis and several noticeable patterns can help future research focusing on preference stability during Covid-19 and other unfavorable events. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40881-023-00127-5.

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“…(2020), Ikeda et al. (2023), Lotti and Pethiyagoda (2021), van de Groep et al. (2020), Habibpour et al.…”

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Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors

Sternberg,

Steinert,

Büthe

2024

Health Economics

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To what extent do economic preferences and institutional trust predict compliance with physical distancing rules during the COVID‐19 pandemic? We reexamine this question by introducing the theoretical and empirical distinction between individual health behaviors in the public and in the private domain (e.g., keeping a distance from strangers vs. abstaining from private gatherings with friends). Using structural equation modeling to analyze survey data from Germany's second wave of the pandemic (N = 3350), we reveal the following major differences between compliance in both domains: Social preferences, especially (positive) reciprocity, play an essential role in predicting compliance in the public domain but are barely relevant in the private domain. Conversely, individuals' degree of trust in the national government matters predominantly for increasing compliance in the private domain. The clearly strongest predictor in this domain is the perception pandemic‐related threats. Our findings encourage tailoring communication strategies to either domain‐specific circumstances or factors common across domains. Tailored communication may also help promote compliance with other health‐related regulatory policies beyond COVID‐19.

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Generosity during COVID-19: investigating socioeconomic shocks and game framing

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

Does the Power of Social Example Fade? Nudge Effect of Social Information on Individual’s Donation Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model with Three-Wave Cross-Sectional Data

Does the Power of Social Example Fade? Nudge Effect of Social Information on Individual’s Donation Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model with Three-Wave Cross-Sectional Data

A selected literature review of the effect of Covid-19 on preferences

Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors

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