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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The 1/d Law of Giving
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jacob Goeree
  • Margaret A McConnell
  • Tiffany Mitchell
  • Tracey Tromp
  • Leeat Yariv
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 432
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2009
Abstract Text We combine survey data on friendship networks and individual characteristics withnexperimental observations from dictator games. Dictator offers are primarily explained by social distance - giving follows a simple inverse distance law. While student demographics play a minor role in explaining offer amounts, individual heterogeneity is important for network formation. In particular, we detect significant homophilous behavior - students connect to others similar to them. Moreover, the network data reveal a strong preferencenfor cliques - students connect to those already close. The study is one of the first tonidentify network architecture with individual behavior in a strategic context.
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