Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada
Unconditional generosity towards unknown others in a community is an important determinant of its social capital. We develop a two-player double-index utility model that explains individual choices to display unconditional generosity to unknown others. Our model incorporates the influence of individ...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:now:jnlrbe:105.00000110 2024-04-14T08:11:42+00:00 Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada Kant, Shashi Vertinsky, Ilan https://doi.org/10.1561/105.000001110 unknown http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/105.000001110 article ftrepec https://doi.org/10.1561/105.000001110 2024-03-19T10:29:02Z Unconditional generosity towards unknown others in a community is an important determinant of its social capital. We develop a two-player double-index utility model that explains individual choices to display unconditional generosity to unknown others. Our model incorporates the influence of individuals’ selfish and ‘other-regarding’ motives, their community embeddedness, group identities, and social norms, to predict choices. We tested the model through field experiments in a First Nation of Canada using modified Dictator Games. The experiments included a retrospective elicitation of motives and provision to dictators of no, or partial information about the identities of second players. Results revealed strong relationships among expressed motives, social norms, group identities, and allocations. First Nation’s culture was manifested by a pattern of more generous giving to elders and women. Provision of partial information about second players’ identities was found to increase average giving and shift self-regarding to other-regarding preferences. Dictator game, Endogenous preference, First nation, Identity, Motives, Other-regarding preference, Social distance Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Canada |
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Unconditional generosity towards unknown others in a community is an important determinant of its social capital. We develop a two-player double-index utility model that explains individual choices to display unconditional generosity to unknown others. Our model incorporates the influence of individuals’ selfish and ‘other-regarding’ motives, their community embeddedness, group identities, and social norms, to predict choices. We tested the model through field experiments in a First Nation of Canada using modified Dictator Games. The experiments included a retrospective elicitation of motives and provision to dictators of no, or partial information about the identities of second players. Results revealed strong relationships among expressed motives, social norms, group identities, and allocations. First Nation’s culture was manifested by a pattern of more generous giving to elders and women. Provision of partial information about second players’ identities was found to increase average giving and shift self-regarding to other-regarding preferences. Dictator game, Endogenous preference, First nation, Identity, Motives, Other-regarding preference, Social distance |
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Kant, Shashi Vertinsky, Ilan |
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Kant, Shashi Vertinsky, Ilan Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada |
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Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada |
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Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada |
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Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada |
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Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada |
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Culture, Motives, and Other-Regarding Preferences of First Nations People of Canada |
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culture, motives, and other-regarding preferences of first nations people of canada |
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