Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cettolin, Elena
Author-Name: Riedl, Arno
Author-workplace-name: Microeconomics & Public Economics, RS: GSBE ETBC
Author-Name: Tran, Thu Giang
Author-workplace-name: Microeconomics & Public Economics, RS: GSBE ETBC
Title: Giving in the Face of Risk
Abstract: The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are not exposed to risk while beneficiaries’ final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation<br/>itself, depending on the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We find that individuals’ risk preferences are predictive for giving in both experiments. Increased risk exposure of beneficiaries tends to decrease giving whereas increased risk exposure of givers has no effect. Giving under risk is<br/>strongly correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our results point to the importance of incorporating risk preferences in models of social preferences.
Classification-JEL: c91,d03,d64,d81
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20160101
Number: 035
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/5408417/RM16035.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 598619
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2016035
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2016035