Table 3. The effect of being recipient of a good action on altruism in the Dictator game. We used logistic regression with and without control on sex, age, and education, using ‘treat’ as a dummy variable. We report the β-value, its standard error, and the significance level. ‘Bas’ stands for ‘Baseline’, ‘Con’ for ‘Control’, and ‘Exc’ for ‘Excluded’. So, for instance, the column ‘Bas Exc vs Con 1 Exc’ reports the results of the regression using Bas Exc = 0 and Con 1 Exc = 1 as dummy variable. We find no significant effect of the dummy on donations in the DG. Being recipient of a good action does not significantly increase the probability of splitting the endowment in the DG.
Bas vs Con 1 | Bas vs Con 1 | Bas Exc vs Con 1 Exc | Bas Exc vs Con 1 Exc | Bas vs Con 2 | Bas vs Con 2 | Bas Exc vs Con 2 Exc | Bas Exc vs Con 2 Exc | |
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dec | ||||||||
treat | −.082 | −.115 | .068 | .024 | .163 | .257 | .186 | .289 |
(.27) | (.27) | (.28) | (.28) | (.27) | (.28) | (.27) | (.29) | |
sex | .545 | .436 | .624* | .619* | ||||
(.28) | (.29) | (.31) | (.31) | |||||
age | .030 | .028 | .015 | .015 | ||||
(.02) | (.02) | (.02) | (.02) | |||||
education | .047 | −.006 | −.194 | −.229 | ||||
(.11) | (.12) | (.11) | (.12) | |||||
Constant | −.251 | −2.078** | −.186 | −1.556* | −.251 | −.746 | −.186 | −.520 |
(.19) | (.74) | (.19) | (.76) | (.19) | (.74) | (.19) | (.77) | |
Pseudo R2 | .000 | .032 | .000 | .023 | .001 | .032 | .002 | .035 |
No. of cases | 227 | 227 | 210 | 210 | 225 | 225 | 214 | 214 |
Significance level:
**: p < 0.01.
*: p < 0.05.