Arbeitspapier
Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation – rather than its benefits – are ambiguous. However, the importance of excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as an excuse not to give, regardless of the nature of this uncertainty.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12869
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- Thema
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social preferences
charitable giving
excuse-driven behavior
ambiguity
experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Garcia, Thomas
Massoni, Sebastien
Villeval, Marie Claire
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Garcia, Thomas
- Massoni, Sebastien
- Villeval, Marie Claire
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2019
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