# Evidence from an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients: Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hypothesis

(Fong 2007)

• The experiment was an n-donor dictator game in which multiple donors were matched with one real-life welfare recipient.

# Empirical Studies of Unemployment: Search Behavior, Reintegration and Prevention(Krause 2013).

She measured the chance of finding jobs in a population of unemployed. Several questions regarding their attitudes were asked:

• Risk attitudes: How do you estimate yourself personally: are you generally prepared to take risks or do you try to avoid risks?
• Time preferences: How do you regard yourself as an individual: are you someone who generally gets impatient or someone who always has a lot of patience?
• Trust: How do you regard yourself as an individual: are you someone who generally trusts others or are you someone who does not trust others?
• Reciprocity: To what extent does the following statement apply to you? I am prepared to accept costs to help someone who has helped me previously.

## Results:

No results with an exception of risk attitude. More risk averse individuals are less selective, i.e. that they have lower reservation wages – which then lead to higher employment probabilities. Time preferences, trust and reciprocity do not affect the probability of being employed

## OLS Coefs:

Risk -.009 (0.003)

Time 0.004 (0.003)

Trust 0.003 (0.004)

Reciprocity 0.003 (0.005)