Evidence from an experiment on charity to welfare recipients: Reciprocity, altruism and the empathic responsiveness hypothesis

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 522, 2007, Pages 1008-1024

  Fong, Christina M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RECIPROCITY;

EID: 34447281996     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02076.x     Document Type: Article

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