NDLI: Reputation and influence in charitable giving: an experiment

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Author	Reinstein, David Riener, Gerhard
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Previous experimental and observational work suggests that people act more generously when they are observed and observe others in social settings. However, the explanation for this is unclear. An individual may want to send a signal of her generosity to improve her own reputation. Alternately (or additionally) she may value the public good or charity itself and, believing that contribution levels are strategic complements, give more to influence others to give more. We perform the first series of laboratory experiments that can separately estimate the impact of these two social effects, and test whether realized influence is consistent with the desire to influence, and whether either of these are consistent with anticipated influence. Our experimental subjects were given the opportunity to contribute from their endowment to Bread for the World, a development NGO. Depending on treatment, “leader” subjects’ donations were reported to other subjects either anonymously or with their identities, and these were reported either before these “follower” subjects made their donation decisions. We find that “leaders” are influential only when their identities are revealed along with their donations, and female leaders are more influential than males. Identified leaders’ predictions suggest that are aware of their influence. They respond to this by giving more than either the control group or the unidentified leaders. We find mixed evidence for “reputation-seeking.”
Starting Page	221
Ending Page	243
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00405833
Journal	Theory and Decision
Volume Number	72
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737187
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-04-22
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Charitable giving Experimental design Reputation Influence Peer effects Altruism Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences Economic Theory Game Theory/Mathematical Methods Operations Research/Decision Theory Methodology of the Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Economics, Econometrics and Finance Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Sciences Decision Sciences Applied Psychology Computer Science Applications

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