10.17889/E110126
Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark
Xie, Huan
Vesterlund, Lise
Replication data for: Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2017
10.1257/aer.20141222
10.1257/aer.20141222
V0
Researchers measure crowd-out around one level of charity output to identify whether giving is motivated by altruism and/or warm-glow. However, crowd-out depends on output,
implying first that the power to reject pure altruism varies, and second that a single measurement of incomplete crowd-out can be rationalized by many different preferences. By
instead measuring crowd-out at different output levels, we allow both for identification and for a novel and direct test of impure altruism. Using a new experimental design, we
present the first empirical evidence that, consistent with impure altruism, crowd-out decreases with output.