Pro-social behavior after a disaster: parochial or universal? Evidence from a natural experiment in Belgium
In the midst of an ongoing nationwide campaign to collect funds for famine relief in Africa, a storm struck a locally famous outdoor music festival in Belgium. Five participants died, and several hundreds were wounded. We use this event to determine whether pro-social behavior, measured by donations to the campaign, can be affected by a local disaster. Applying a differences-in-differences identification strategy to campaign contributions at the municipality-day level, we show that, after the event, the municipalities affected by the disaster gave more money to the famine relief in Africa camp... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | Economie / Household Behavior: General / D10 / Altruism / D64 / Nonprofit Institutions / NGOs / L31 / Charity / NGO / Giving / Disaster |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28549862 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/242497 |
In the midst of an ongoing nationwide campaign to collect funds for famine relief in Africa, a storm struck a locally famous outdoor music festival in Belgium. Five participants died, and several hundreds were wounded. We use this event to determine whether pro-social behavior, measured by donations to the campaign, can be affected by a local disaster. Applying a differences-in-differences identification strategy to campaign contributions at the municipality-day level, we show that, after the event, the municipalities affected by the disaster gave more money to the famine relief in Africa campaign than non-affected municipalities. We interpret this finding as evidence that donations to a faraway cause can be positively affected by a local disaster. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published