Paying it forward: an experimental study on social connections and indirect reciprocity

IF 0.3 4区经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS

Review of Economic Design Pub Date : 2022-03-08 DOI:10.1007/s10058-022-00298-3

Pinghan Liang, Juanjuan Meng

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This paper studies how in-group social connections affect outsiders’ pro-social behavior towards group members. We employ an indirect investment game, in which a recipient of a good deed has to return to a beneficiary, instead of the original donor. We introduce the naturally-occurring social connections between the donor and the beneficiary, and show that such connections increase the recipients’ transfer to a beneficiary by 42% when the donor’s transfer is above average. The spillover does not function through the signaling of the donor’s expectations, and altruism with an endogenous reference group explains our results well.

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传递:社会联系与间接互惠的实验研究

本文研究了群体内社会联系对群体外成员亲社会行为的影响。我们采用了一种间接投资游戏，在这种游戏中，善行的接受者必须返回给受益人，而不是最初的捐赠者。我们引入了捐赠人与受益人之间自然发生的社会联系，并表明当捐赠人的转移高于平均水平时，这种联系使受赠人向受益人的转移增加了42%。溢出效应不是通过捐赠者期望的信号发挥作用的，而具有内生参照群体的利他主义很好地解释了我们的结果。

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Review of Economic Design ECONOMICS-

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0.80

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28.60%

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