🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 What motivates people to help others? Are they utilitarian like Mill and Bentham, or do they care about equity and desert, like Aristotle and Locke? We use a Dutch TV show to answer this question! Paper available here: t.co/THSMqeHy7o Thread below 🧵👇 #econtwitter - ThreadSky

dvdolder.bsky.social • 167 days ago

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
What motivates people to help others? Are they utilitarian like Mill and Bentham, or do they care about equity and desert, like Aristotle and Locke? We use a Dutch TV show to answer this question!
Paper available here: https://t.co/THSMqeHy7o
Thread below 🧵👇
#econtwitter

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dvdolder.bsky.social•167 days ago

There are different normative views on giving. According to utilitarianism, proposed by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, individuals should give to maximize societal well-being. This perspective forms the foundation for welfare economics and the effective altruism movement.

dvdolder.bsky.social•167 days ago

How do people actually give? Evidence on the role of utilitarian (or "impact") considerations in giving is mixed, while there is strong support for that of equity and desert ("responsibility"). However, empirical studies have not directly compared the importance of the two views.

dvdolder.bsky.social•167 days ago

In our paper, we use data from the Dutch TV show Geld Maakt Gelukkig (“money buys happiness”) to compare how perceptions of impact and responsibility influence donation decisions in a quasi-controlled field setting with stakes that are consequential for the recipients.

dvdolder.bsky.social•167 days ago

In each episode, three candidates appeal to a studio audience of one hundred people for financial help to address a difficulty they face.

dvdolder.bsky.social•167 days ago

The cases are very diverse. For example, the candidates depicted below asked for money for breast augmentation following gender reassignment surgery, legal support to resolve issues caused by a legal guardian's mistakes in managing debts, and a final family vacation due to a terminal illness.

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