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SUMMARY:Seminar with Lise Vesterlund\, University of Pittsburgh
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DESCRIPTION:Lisa Versterlund\, University of Pittsburgh\, will present
   "Motives for Charitable Giving\," by Lise Vesterlund\, Mark Wilhelm 
 and Huan Xie.\n\nAbstract\:  The literature on charitable giving disti
 nguishes between the pure versus impure altruism model. The pure altru
 ism model argues that the sole motive for giving is a concern for secu
 ring the charity’s output\, whereas the impure altruism model allows
  for the possibility that a donor also gets a private benefit or warm 
 glow from being the one who secures the contribution to the charity. W
 hile the past literature has focused on testing the pure altruism mode
 l\, we design an experiment that enables an examination of both models
 \, and thus improves our ability to identify the role played by the wa
 rm glow of giving. We test the motives for giving in an environment th
 at closely mirrors those of the theoretical models\, specifically each
  participant in the experiment singlehandedly determines the dollar am
 ount to be transferred to a recipient of the charity. Our results show
  that participants behave as predicted by the impure altruism model\, 
 however the relative weight attached to the warm-glow of giving is ver
 y small.
LOCATION:214 Business Building
CONTACT:Gary Bolton\, 814-865-0611\, geb3@psu.edu
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