Sharing one’s fortune? An experimental study on earned income and giving
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- Mirco Tonin & Michael Vlassopoulos, 2013. "Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving," CESifo Working Paper Series 4475, CESifo.
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Keywords
Charitable giving; Real effort experiment; Earned income; Luck; Windfall income;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- J39 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Other
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