Giving to poverty relief charities: the impact of beliefs and misperceptions toward income redistribution in a real donation experiment

Luccasen, R. Andrew; Thomas, M. Kathleen; Grossman, Philip J.

doi:10.1007/s00355-017-1070-8

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“…Last, we elicit the level of altruism using a charity donation game (Luccasen et al, 2017 ). While the prisoner's dilemma accounts for the tension between one's own profit and the collective surplus in a strategic interaction, the charity game measures the generosity and pro‐social behavior of participants.…”

Section: Design Of the Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial intention and resilience: An experiment during the Covid‐19 lockdown

2022

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We study what profiles of individuals were the most likely to give up their entrepreneurial project at the beginning of the Covid‐19 crisis. To do so, we run an experiment during the first lockdown in the United Kingdom. Our results show that the first months of the crisis have a sharp screening effect: 63% of prospective entrepreneurs postpone or cancel their project in May 2020. Taste for risk or competition does not characterize those who stick to their project. Instead, low opportunity costs to continue and concern for one's own interest instead of cooperation are common among entrepreneurs who persist.

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Entrepreneurial intention and resilience: An experiment during the Covid‐19 lockdown

2022

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“…Fifth, the literature on inequality and poverty suggests many other beliefs and attitudes that can influence assistance to people in poverty than we could include in this study, which are ripe for testing on poverty simulations. These include beliefs about the amounts of existing government and charitable assistance, efficacy of aid, and income mobility and inequality (Luccasen, Thomas, & Grossman, 2017;Willer et al, 2015). They also include attitudes toward in-group and out-group membership, conformity and social influence, social responsibility, self-interest and fairness (Clark & D'Ambrosio, 2014;González & Lay, 2017).…”

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Experiencing poverty in an online simulation: Effects on players’ beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about poverty

Hernández-Ramos¹,

Bachen²,

Raphael³

et al. 2019

Cyberpsychology

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Hernández-Ramos, P., Bachen, C. M., Raphael, C., Ifcher, J., Broghammer, M. (2019). Experiencing poverty in an online simulation: Effects on players' beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about poverty. AbstractDigital simulations are increasingly used to educate about the causes and effects of poverty, and inspire action to alleviate it. Drawing on research about attributions of poverty, subjective well-being, and relative income, this experimental study assesses the effects of an online poverty simulation (entitled Spent) on participants' beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Results show that, compared with a control group, Spent players donated marginally more money to a charity serving the poor and expressed higher support for policies benefitting the poor, but were less likely to take immediate political action by signing an online petition to support a higher minimum wage. Spent players also expressed greater subjective well-being than the control group, but this was not associated with increased policy support or donations. Spent players who experienced greater presence (perceived realism of the simulation) had higher levels of empathy, which contributed to attributing poverty to structural causes and support for anti-poverty policies. We draw conclusions for theory about the psychological experience of playing online poverty simulations, and for how they could be designed to stimulate charity and support for anti-poverty policies.

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“…whether conservative or liberal, has no impact on the likelihood of volunteering. Luccasen et al (2017) use a real donation experiment in the U.S. to explore links between contributions to poverty-relief charities and perceptions of federal transfers to low income households. They also ask participants to self-identify political affiliation and find that there is little correlation between political affiliation and giving to charity.…”

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“…Brooks, 2005;Vaidyanathan et al, 2011), focused only on non-religious giving (Ribar and Wilhelm, 1995;Manesi et al, 2019;Mocan and Tekin 2007) or combined into total donations (e.g. Luccasen et al, 2017). For example, Ribar and Wilhelm (1995) used U.S. state-level data to examine the determinants of charitable contributions to international relief and development and found that donations are larger in states with more politically liberal residents.…”

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Charitable behaviour and political affiliation: Evidence for the UK

Alzuabi

Brown

Taylor

2022

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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Giving to poverty relief charities: the impact of beliefs and misperceptions toward income redistribution in a real donation experiment

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Entrepreneurial intention and resilience: An experiment during the Covid‐19 lockdown

Entrepreneurial intention and resilience: An experiment during the Covid‐19 lockdown

Experiencing poverty in an online simulation: Effects on players’ beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about poverty

Charitable behaviour and political affiliation: Evidence for the UK

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