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. 2014 Dec 12;4:7470. doi: 10.1038/srep07470

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
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.