Relative income, social preferences, and charitable giving: An experimental analysis

了解人们给予他人的动机（即，私人捐赠的动机）对于规范社会互动、实现公平结果以及设计应对洪水和火灾等自然灾害的最佳对策至关重要。澳大利亚的社会和经济结构通过与再分配和税收有关的良好公共政策得到加强。我们的研究的跨文化方面将提高人们对各国对收入决定因素的不同看法的认识，以及决策者如何利用这些信息来设计适当的政策，以帮助有需要的人。该研究项目还将提高澳大利亚与外国大学之间的学术互动水平。

Understanding people's incentives to give to others (i.e., what motivates private donations) is important in regulating social interactions, achieving fair outcomes, and designing optimal responses to natural disasters like floods and bushfires. Australia's social and economic fabric is strengthened by good public polices relating to redistribution and taxation. The cross-cultural aspect of our study will increase awareness about differing beliefs across countries about the determinants of income and how policy makers can use this information to design appropriate policies to help people in need. This research project will also increase the level of academic interactions between Australian and foreign universities.