Beware Of Popular Kids Bearing Gifts: A Framed Field Experiment - Jignan Chen, Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari, And Marco Piovesan (Interdisciplinary Center For Economic Science, George Mason University) Page 19
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= −!Popularity index for child !, the higher the value the more popular
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child ! is;
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= Age of child !;
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= 1 if child ! is male, 0 otherwise;
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for child !.
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indicates the Prosociality score obtained in the SDQ
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Note that we used a binary specification with 2 as the cutoff for two reasons. First, doing
so leads to a roughly equal split in our sample in both the public and private treatments.
For example, in Public 51% of our participants sharing two or more silly-bands, while
49% share fewer than two. Second, cell sizes are highly unequal in our data. For
example, in both treatments only 9% of our observations are in the top two cells (please
refer to Figure 1 and Table 2). Consequently, some type of aggregation is unavoidable
when performing our analysis, and the procedure we adopted seems natural. Alternative
specifications do not substantively change our results.
From the regression (1) reported in Table 5 below, we can see that the Public treatment is
not significantly different than the Private treatment (p=.41).
In regression (2), we look at both the treatment effect and also the main effects:
popularity does not have an effect on overall sharing decisions. Age has a significant and
positive effect on sharing probabilities: a child one year older is 17% more likely to share
(everything else equal). Being a male has a negative impact on sharing, as males on
average are less likely to be generous than females, although the effect is not statistically
significant. Lastly, those with higher pro-social tendencies display a higher willingness to
share.
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The SDQ questionnaire translated in different languages, as well as the scoring rules for each subscale,
can be found at this website:
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