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IMPURE ALTRUISM AND DONATIONS TO PUBLIC GOODS: A THEORY OF WARM-GLOW GIVING*
- J. Andreoni
- Economics
- 1 June 1990
When people make donations to privately provided public goods, such as charity, there may be many factors influencing their decision other than altruism. Social pressure, guilt, sympathy, or simply a… Expand
Giving with Impure Altruism: Applications to Charity and Ricardian Equivalence
- J. Andreoni
- Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 December 1989
Models of giving have often been based on altruism. Examples include charity and intergenerational transfers. The literatures on both subjects have centered around neutrality hypotheses: charity is… Expand
NOTES AND COMMENTS GIVING ACCORDING TO GARP: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE CONSISTENCY OF PREFERENCES FOR ALTRUISM
- J. Andreoni, J. Miller
- Economics, Psychology
- 1 March 2002
Subjects in economic laboratory experiments have clearly expressed an interest in behaving unselfishly. They cooperate in prisoners’ dilemma games, they give to public goods, and they leave money on… Expand
Why free ride?: Strategies and learning in public goods experiments
- J. Andreoni
- Economics
- 1 December 1988
Abstract Laboratory experiments on free riding have produced mixed results. Free riding is seldom observed with single-shot games; however, it is often approximated in finitely repeated games. There… Expand
Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets
- J. Andreoni, C. Sprenger
- Economics
- 1 September 2010
Experimentally elicited discount rates are frequently higher than what one would infer from market interest rates and seem unreasonable for economic decision-making. Such high rates have often been… Expand
Privately provided public goods in a large economy: The limits of altruism
- J. Andreoni
- Economics
- 1 February 1988
Abstract Private charity has often been modelled as a pure public good. The results reported in this paper, however, suggest that this model of altruism fails to confirm even the broadest empirical… Expand
Cooperation in Public-Goods Experiments: Kindness or Confusion?
- J. Andreoni
- Economics
- 1995
The persistence of cooperation in public-goods experiments has become an important puzzle for economists. This paper presents the first systematic attempt to separate the hypothesis that cooperation… Expand
Which is the Fair Sex? Gender Differences in Altruism
- J. Andreoni, L. Vesterlund
- Economics
- 1 February 2001
We study gender differences in altruism by examining a modified dictator game with varying incomes and prices. Our results indicate that the question "which is the fair sex?" has a complicated… Expand
Warm-Glow versus Cold-Prickle: The Effects of Positive and Negative Framing on Cooperation in Experiments
- J. Andreoni
- Economics
- 1 February 1995
This paper considers the standard linear public goods game under two experimental conditions. The positive-frame condition is the regular public goods game that experimental economists have studied… Expand
Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects
- J. Andreoni
- Psychology, Economics
- 1 September 2009
A norm of 50-50 division appears to have considerable force in a wide range of economic environments, both in the real world and in the laboratory. Even in settings where one party unilaterally… Expand