What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty

By Christina M. Fong, Erzo F. P. Luttmer. 2009

197 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d06ba95b197cdb857d2fff0cacd4c55c6e9dc4f7

Citations in the corpus

• Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels (2014, unknown): “…information content, we evaluated the use of economic information (“estimated yearly operating cost” in the current EnergyGuide label), physical information on energy use (“estimated yearly energy use” in the current EnergyGuide label), as well as the inclusion or exclusion of the range of…”
• ETHNIC DIVERSITY, PUBLIC SPENDING, AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE (2013, unknown): “Fong and Luttmer (2009) study whether race affects actual charitable giving and self-reported attitudes towards private and public spending to help the victims of hurricane Katrina.”
• The challenge of understanding decisions in experimental studies of common pool resource governance (2011, unknown): “To date, few scholars have sought to use experimental economics with migratory, refugee, or resettled populations (but see Fong and Luttmer, 2009 for a study with refugees from Hurricane Katrina).”
• The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market (2010, unknown): “In economics, Fong and Luttmer (2009) conducted an online experiment to investigate racial bias in charitable donations, using Knowledge Networks instead of an online labor market.”
• Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism (2011, unknown): “Other settings where ingroup bias has been studied are reported in Bernhard, Fischbacher, and Fehr (2006), Chen and Li (2009), Fong and Luttmer (2009) and Klor and Shayo (2010).”
• Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe1 (2019, unknown): “Data on regional GDP growth from the 1960s is taken from Gennaioli et al. (2014), which provides a dataset at the NUTS 2 level for most of the European countries.”
• The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, unknown): “For instance, Luttmer and Fong (2009) find in an experimental setting that people donate more money to Hurricane Katrina victims when the victims are perceived to be of the same ethnicity as the donor.”
• Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences (2014, unknown): “Linder ð1996Þ, Goette, Huffman, and Meier ð2006Þ, and Fong and Luttmer ð2009Þ provide evidence of own-group bias or empathy in settings ranging from charitable giving to jury service.”
• Testing for altruism and social pressure in charitable giving. (2012, unknown): “We also thank Daniel Acland, Matthew Levy, Gautam Rao, and Xiaoyu Xia for excellent research assistance.”
• Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment (2011, unknown): “Finally, in an experiment similar to this one, where a nationally representative sample played dictator games in which the recipients were victims of Hurricane Katrina, the average offer was $65 out of $100 (Fong and Luttmer, 2009).”