dc.contributor.author | Brañas Garza, Pablo | |
dc.contributor.author | Jorrat, Diego | |
dc.contributor.author | Kovarik, Jaromir | |
dc.contributor.author | López, María C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-18T07:55:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-18T07:55:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-25 | |
dc.identifier.citation | PloS One 16(8) : (2021) // Article ID e0255668 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/53412 | |
dc.description.abstract | Using an incentivized experiment with statistical power, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome of the lottery. We study three stake levels: 5 (n = 177), 100 (n = 168), and 1,000 (n = 171). Although the donations increase in absolute terms as the stakes increase, subjects decrease the donated fraction of the pie. However, people still share roughly 20% of 1,000, an amount as high as the average monthly salary of people at the age of our subjects. The number of people sharing 50% of the pie is remarkably stable across stakes, but donating the the whole pie-the modal behavior in charity-donation experiments-disappears with stakes. Such hyper-altruistic behavior thus seems to be an artifact of the stakes typically employed in economic and psychological experiments. Our findings point out that sharing with others is a prevalent human feature, but stakes are an important determinant of sharing. Policies promoted via prosocial frames (e.g., stressing the effects of mask-wearing or social distancing on others during the Covid-19 pandemic or environmentally-friendly behaviors on future generations) may thus be miscalibrated if they disregard the stakes at play. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Public Library Of Science | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | lottery prizes | es_ES |
dc.subject | donations | es_ES |
dc.subject | stakes | es_ES |
dc.subject | hyper-altruistic behavior | es_ES |
dc.title | Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255668 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0255668 | |
dc.departamentoes | Análisis Económico | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Analisi Ekonomikoa | es_ES |