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Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

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Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

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Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

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Oxford: MIT Press

Journal title

The Quarterly journal of economics, 2009-11, Vol.124 (4), p.1815-1851

Language

English

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Oxford: MIT Press

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Contents

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 of future interaction. Directed altruism increases...

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Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

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TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_03461752v1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_03461752v1

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ISSN

0033-5533

E-ISSN

1531-4650

DOI

10.1162/qjec.2009.124.4.1815

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