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Giving behavior of millionaires

Paul Smeets, Rob Bauer, and Uri Gneezy
PNAS August 25, 2015 112 (34) 10641-10644; first published August 10, 2015; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507949112
Paul Smeets
aDepartment of Finance and European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, 6211 LM, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
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  • For correspondence: pm.smeets@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Rob Bauer
aDepartment of Finance and European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, 6211 LM, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
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Uri Gneezy
bRady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093;
cCenter for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  1. Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved July 10, 2015 (received for review April 23, 2015)

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vol. 112 no. 34 10641-10644
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507949112
PubMed: 
26261327

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue August 25, 2015.
  • Published first August 10, 2015.


Author Information

  1. Paul Smeetsa,1,
  2. Rob Bauera, and
  3. Uri Gneezyb,c
  1. aDepartment of Finance and European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, 6211 LM, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
  2. bRady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093;
  3. cCenter for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  1. Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved July 10, 2015 (received for review April 23, 2015)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: pm.smeets{at}maastrichtuniversity.nl.
  • Author contributions: P.S. and U.G. designed research; P.S. performed research; P.S. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; P.S. analyzed data; P.S., R.B., and U.G. wrote the paper; and R.B. participated in data collection.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1507949112/-/DCSupplemental.

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    • Result 1: In the Dictator Game, Millionaires Give a Higher Amount to Low-Income Participants than to Other Millionaires
    • Result 2: In the Dictator Game, Millionaires Who Are Matched to a Low-Income Participant Give Away More than in any Other Example in the Literature
    • Result 3: Millionaires Are More Generous Toward Low-Income Participants in the Dictator Game than in the Ultimatum Game
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