The short-term effect of COVID-19 on schoolchildren's generosity

Kiss, Hubert János; Keller, Tamás

doi:10.1080/13504851.2021.1893892

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“…Further related papers includeLi et al (2020),Lotti (2020),Sheth and Wright (2020),Allen et al (2021),Andersson et al (2021), Arroyos-Calvera et al (2021,Grimalda et al (2021),Jeworrek and Waibel (2021),Kiss and Keller (2021),Mahmoud and Meyer (2021),Müller and Rau (2021),Shachat et al (2021),Wong et al (2021),Yue et al (2021).6 SeeGrossman and Van Der Weele (2017) for charitable giving andDelaney et al (2014) for financial decisions under cognitive load.7 Examples of the latter include changes in behavior due to disasters(Frey et al, 2011;Hanaoka et al, 2018;Filipski et al, 2019) or due to crises and wars(Voors et al, 2012);Adena et al, 2021. …”

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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

Adena

Harke

2022

Exp Econ

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Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable appeals were updated to include a reference to COVID-19. Did donors increase their giving in response to such changes? In order to answer these questions, we conducted a real-donation online experiment with more than 4200 participants from 149 local areas in England and over 21 weeks. First, we varied the fundraising appeal to either include or exclude a reference to COVID-19. We found that including the reference to COVID-19 in the appeal increased donations. Second, in a natural experiment-like approach, we studied how the relative local severity of the pandemic and media coverage about local COVID-19 severity affected giving in our experiment. We found that both higher local severity and more related articles increased giving of participants in the respective areas. This holds for different specifications, including specifications with location fixed effects, time fixed effects, a broad set of individual characteristics to account for a potentially changing composition of the sample over time and to account for health- and work-related experiences with and expectations regarding the pandemic. While negative experiences with COVID-19 correlate negatively with giving, both approaches led us to conclude that the pure effect of increased salience of the pandemic on pro-sociality is positive. Despite the shift in public attention toward the domestic fight against the pandemic and away from developing countries’ challenges, we found that preferences did not shift toward giving more to a national project and less to developing countries.

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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

Adena

Harke

2022

Exp Econ

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“…Further related papers includeAllen IV et al (2021),Andersson et al (2020), Arroyos-Calvera et al (2021,Grimalda et al (2021),Jeworrek and Waibel (2021),Kiss and Keller (2021),Li et al (2020),Lotti (2020),Mahmoud and Meyer (2021),Müller and Rau (2021),Shachat et al (2021),Sheth and Wright (2020),Wong and Yang (2021), and Yue and Yang (2021).6 See Grossman and Van Der Weele (2017) for charitable giving andDelaney et al (2014) for financial decisions under cognitive load.7 Examples of the latter include changes in behavior after disasters(Filipski et al, 2019;Frey et al, 2011;Hanaoka et al, 2018) or after crises and wars(Adena et al, 2020;Voors et al, 2012).…”

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COVID-19 and Pro-Sociality: How Do Donors Respond to Local Pandemic Severity, Increased Salience, and Media Coverage?

Adena

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…We purposefully designed the size of the treatment groups to be larger (N = 789, 69%) than the size of the control group (N = 354; 31%), because the collected data was also used for a different study, where we investigated short-term changes in students’ attitudes [ 22 ]. That research question required a stable ordering of questionnaire items.…”

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Do exhausted primary school students cheat more? A randomized field experiment

Keller

Kiss

2021

PLoS ONE

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Motivated by the two-decade-long scientific debate over the existence of the ego-depletion effect, our paper contributes to exploring the scope conditions of ego-depletion theory. Specifically, in a randomized experiment, we depleted students’ self-control with a cognitively demanding task that required students’ effort. We measured the effect of depleted self-control on a subsequent task that required self-control to not engage in fraudulent cheating behavior—measured with an incentivized dice-roll task—and tested ego-depletion in a large-scale preregistered field experiment that was similar to real-life situations. We hypothesized that treated students would cheat more. The data confirms the hypothesis and provides causal evidence of the ego-depletion effect. Our results provide new insights into the scope conditions of ego-depletion theory, contribute methodological information for future research, and offer practical guidance for educational policy.

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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on schoolchildren's generosity

Abstract: CERS-IE Working Papers are circulated to promote discussion and provoque comments, they have not been peer-reviewed. Any references to discussion papers should clearly state that the paper is preliminary.Materials published in this series may be subject to further publication.

Cited by 7 publications

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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

COVID-19 and Pro-Sociality: How Do Donors Respond to Local Pandemic Severity, Increased Salience, and Media Coverage?

Do exhausted primary school students cheat more? A randomized field experiment

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