Lotti, Lorenzo;
Pethiyagoda, Shanali;
(2022)
Generosity during COVID-19: investigating socioeconomic shocks and game framing.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
, 9
, Article 189. 10.1057/s41599-022-01200-w.
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Abstract
This paper investigates two research questions. First, we examine the impact of the negative socioeconomic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic on generosity towards different types of recipients, and changes in generosity as the shock worsens over time. This is carried out by analysing the responses of 1255 US citizens to four dictator games played over 8 weeks of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, corresponding to four different recipients: relatives, neighbours, strangers, and the state. Second, we investigate whether the order in which the games are played create a framing effect that influences social preferences in terms of generosity towards the different recipients. Results capture an increase in generosity despite the worsening pandemic, indicating strong perceived increasing marginal benefits of generosity in times of hardship. There is significant heterogeneity in the effects of additional regressors, such as perceived contagion risk, on the likelihood and amount donated to strangers, family members, or the government. At the same time, some significant effects of framing bring new evidence regarding the stability of social preferences.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Generosity during COVID-19: investigating socioeconomic shocks and game framing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41599-022-01200-w |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01200-w |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150519 |
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