Inequality Aversion, Self-Interest and Social Connectedness

This data accompanies the paper Robson, M., (2021), "Inequality Aversion, Self-Interest and Social Connectedness", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. The paper runs an incentivised lab-in-the-field experiment in order to study giving behaviour where the social connectedness to recipients varies. Data and code are provided to allow for the replication of the experiment and results of the paper. Data sets include the observed behaviour, demographics and design parameters from the experiment, alongside estimated preference parameters. z-Tree code is provided so others can run the experiment and statistical code in MATLAB, R and Stata are provided to allow others to undertake data reshaping, econometric analysis, preference parameter estimation and graphical analysis. A detailed summary is included in the Documentation.pdf, and should be read first. Please email with any queries and do let me know if you intend to use the data or methods, I would be excited to hear of your research.

本数据集配套Robson M于2021年发表于《经济行为与组织期刊》（Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization）的论文《不平等厌恶、自利与社会联结》（Inequality Aversion, Self-Interest and Social Connectedness）。该论文开展了一项激励型田野实验室实验，以研究与受助对象社会联结程度存在差异时的捐赠行为。本数据集提供了复现该实验与论文研究结果所需的全部数据与代码，涵盖实验观测行为数据、人口统计学特征数据、实验设计参数以及估计得到的偏好参数。本次公开的代码包含可用于复刻实验的z-Tree代码，以及适配MATLAB、R与Stata平台的统计代码，可支持数据重塑、计量经济学分析、偏好参数估计与图形化分析。文档Documentation.pdf中包含详细的数据集说明，请务必优先阅读该文件。若您有任何疑问，可通过邮件联系；若您计划使用本数据集或相关研究方法，也请告知我方，本人十分期待了解您的研究成果。