Altruism and the pressure to share: Lab evidence from Tanzania.
We propose a novel laboratory experiment to document the pressure to share income within social networks in Africa. We find that the redistributive pressure exerted via the possibility of receiving a claim increases altruism, while the possibility of hiding from such claim reduces it. Our results in...
Main Authors: | Salvatore Di Falco, Razack Lokina, Peter Martinsson, Paolo Pin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212747 |
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