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2022
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CESifo Working Paper No. 9522
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Zusammenfassung: 
Guided by Bem's (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e.g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism "now" and show that giving "now" causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving "later"; that is, altruism begets altruism. We further show that, consistent with self-perception theory, the choice to behave altruistically "now", rather than the nudge itself, is the crucial element in the causal relationship. These findings are consistent with a model of positive path-dependence, which we interpret as moral consistency.
Schlagwörter: 
altruism
nudge
moral consistency
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