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Trust and generosity towards local NGOs and peers: Experimental Evidence from urban consumers in five African countries

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We run well-established experimental games with urban consumers in five African cities. The aim of the study is to test how standard findings in experimental economics replicate with a non-standard sample and how prosocial attitudes differ when interacting with peers and institutions. Participants play dictator games and trust games with peers or local NGOs as receivers; a public good game, with and without identity manipulation; and two incentivised tasks to elicit risk and time preferences. Preliminary evidence shows larger donations and higher trust towards local NGOs than peers, while identity manipulation does not affect cooperation in the public good game. While average donations and average cooperation levels seem to be in line with the experimental literature, we observe unusually large inconsistencies in risk and time preferences with high variance across cities.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14844319

Authors: Marini Govigli, Valentino, Marandola, Ginevra, Piras, Simone, Ploner, Matteo, Setti, Marco

Institutions: University of Bologna, James Hutton Institute, University of Trento

Language: English

Topic: Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission