Favouring Friends

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Miguel Ángel Durán and María Paz Espinosa
Bulletin of Economic Research 64(2), p. 172-178.

This paper focuses on the friendship effect on donations in a dictator game. Our results indicate that the taste for altruism is substantially increased when friends play the role of recipients. Controlling for reciprocity there is still a significant friendship effect on donations.

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