Prior work has shown that people appear insensitive to the scope of their altruistic acts and prosocial behavior. While they respond positively when their choices lead to increasing rewards for themse
1. The 2018 GSS dataset, which can be downloaded from https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data/stata, should be placed in a directory named "~/Raw_Data" for the code to run. 2. The Stata do.files should be r
To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction