What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: We investigate the role of racial group loyalty on generosity in a broadly representative sample of the US adult population. We use an audiovisual presentation to manipulate beliefs about the race, income, and worthiness of Hurricane Katrina victims. Respondents then decide how to divide $100 between themselves and Katrina victims. We find no effects of victims' race on giving on average. However, respondents who report feeling close to their racial or ethnic group give substantially more when victims are of the same race, while respondents who do not feel close to their group give substantially less. (JEL D64, J15, Q54)
DOI: 10.1257/app.1.2.64
Authors: Christina M Fong, Erzo F. P Luttmer
Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: Collaborative Proposal: A Randomized Experiment on the Causal Effect of Recipients' Race and Social Circumstances on the Provision of Disaster Relief to Katrina Victims, G1669522973, Collaborative Proposal: A Randomized Experiment on the Causal Effect of Recipients' Race and Social Circumstances on the Provision of Disaster Relief to Katrina Victims
OpenAlex ID: W1995092846