Reputation and influence in charitable giving: An experiment

Theory and Decision

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-243

  Reinstein, David ^a   Riener, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altruism; Charitable giving; Experimental design; Influence; Peer effects; Reputation

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; CHARITABLE GIVING; INFLUENCE; PEER EFFECTS; REPUTATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84856693120     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-011-9245-8     Document Type: Article

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