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. 2022 Apr 22;25(3):824–844. doi: 10.1007/s10683-022-09753-y

Table 2.

H1: The COVID-19 reference increases donations. Outcome variable: donation amount

(1) (2) (3)
COVID-19 reference 0.052*** (0.013) 0.053*** (0.013) 0.050*** (0.013)
Baseline controls Yes Yes Yes
Financial controls No Yes Yes
Health controls No No Yes
Time fixed effects Yes Yes Yes
Observations 3541 3541 3541
R2 0.050 0.059 0.067

Robust errors. Baseline controls are slider initial position, age, dummy born in the UK, female dummy, socioeconomic status, and number of household members. Financial controls include monthly household income, making ends meet dummies (before the pandemic and since the pandemic), and income change dummies (since the pandemic and expected in the future). Health controls include health negatively affected by COVID-19 dummies, expected negative impact on health dummies, and vulnerability to COVID-19: high risk or moderate risk dummies

*p<0.10, **p<0.05, ***p<0.01