Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

• Main Authors: Leider, Stephen, Mobius, Markus M., Rosenblat, Tanya S., DO, Quoc-Anh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: modified dictator games; directed altruism; enforced reciprocity; social networks; Behavioral Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1147; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2146/viewcontent/DirectedAltruism.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We conducted online field experiments in large real-world social networks in order to decompose prosocial giving into three components: (1) baseline altruism toward randomly selected strangers, (2) directed altruism that favors friends over random strangers, and (3) giving motivated by the prospect...