Giving behavior of millionaires

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 34, 2015, Pages 10641-10644

  Smeets, Paul ^a   Bauer, Rob ^a   Gneezy, Uri ^b,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dictator game; Donations; Experimental economics; Philanthropy; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENEROSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILLIONAIRE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AGE; AGED; ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GAME; INCOME; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; POVERTY; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; POVERTY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84940563662     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1507949112     Document Type: Article

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