Disentangling the Sources of Pro-socially Motivated Effort: A Field Experiment
Disentangling the Sources of Pro-socially Motivated Effort: A Field Experiment
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.08.011
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发表时间：
2010-12
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
M. Tonin;Michael Vlassopoulos
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作者：
M. Tonin;Michael Vlassopoulos
本文提出了一个实地实验的证据，旨在确定文献中考虑的工人亲社会动机的两个来源：暖光利他主义和纯粹利他主义。我们采用了一种实验设计，首先测量了学生工作者在引起纯粹自私行为的环境中对数据输入任务所付出的努力水平，并将其与在引起温暖的利他主义的环境中所付出的努力进行了比较。然后，我们将后者与在两种利他偏好都被激发的环境中所施加的努力进行比较。我们发现有证据表明，由于温暖的利他主义，女性会增加努力，而我们没有发现纯粹的利他主义有任何额外的影响。另一方面，我们样本中的男性对任何治疗都没有反应。
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers' pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: warm glow altruism and pure altruism. We employ an experimental design that first measures the level of effort exerted by student workers on a data entry task in an environment that elicits purely selfish behavior and we compare it to effort exerted in an environment that also induces warm glow altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are elicited. We find evidence that women increase effort due to warm glow altruism while we do not find any additional impact due to pure altruism. On the other hand, men in our sample are not responsive to any of the treatments.