Anomalous behavior in public goods experiments: How much
通过随机改变被试私人消费回报率，测量个体贡献率对投资成本的响应函数，检验温暖光辉和利他主义效应，发现温暖光辉效应显著但平均幅度小，利他效应不显著。
The authors report the results of voluntary contributions experiments where subjects are randomly assigned different rates of return from their private consumption. These random assignments are changed round to round, enabling the measurement of individual player contribution rates as a function of that player's investment cost. The authors directly test these response functions for the presence of warm-glow and/or altruism effects. They find significant evidence for heterogeneous warm-glow effects that are, on average, low in magnitude. The authors statistically reject the presence of an altruism effect. Copyright 1997 by American Economic Association.