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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Behav Exp Econ. 2019 Sep 11;82:101462. doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2019.101462

Table 10.

Empathic concern causal mediation analysis (Females).

Avg. causal mediation effect Direct effect % of total effect mediated
Inequality −0.057 0.033 4.6%
Child Story 0.364 1.048 23.8%
Guilt Appeal 0.224 2.020* 9.0%*
Child Story + Guilt Appeal 0.344 1.584* 17.4%*

Notes. The final treatment combines Child-Story and Guilt-Appeal treatments to increase degrees of freedom in estimation.

*

p < 0.05.