Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid We investigate how undergraduates’ financial aid packages affect their subsequent donative behavior as alumni. The empirical work is based upon a rich set of micro data on alumni giving at an anonymous research university, which we call Anon U. We focus on three types of financial aid, scholarships, loans, and campu...

Choosing an appropriate gift is difficult because the purpose of gift giving is to arouse affection in the receiver, not the giver, and too many variables that influence the results. Utilizing 600 samples and a hybrid method combining the decision tree and K-nearest neighbor approaches, this study builds a DTKNN two–stepped recommendation system which achieves a precision rate higher than 80%. ...

We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively. Complex exchange gives higher payoffs than simple exchange but it requires not only mutual trust, like si...

Abstract Gift-giving was, and in many societies still is, one of the key social phenomena. The gifts were more than just goods given to somebody. Economically they represent an important means procure needed goods. Socially, expressed relationships between donors recipients was among for individual exercise power over another. present study is conceived as a first step understanding complex pro...

Using village data from Tanzania, we test whether gifts and loans between households are voluntary while correcting for mis-reporting by the giving and receiving households. Two maintained assumptions underlie our analysis: answers to a question on who people would turn to for help are good proxies for willingness to link; and, conditional on regressors, the probability of reporting a gift or l...

Introduction: the work is written in discourse of economic anthropology. The relevance institute gift-giving among Ob-Ugric peoples determined by interest study their traditional culture, as well desire to determine its role and functions modern global world. Objective: consider analyze different types gift exchange related communications people past practices. Research materials: author’s fiel...

Two previous surveys used to measure the welfare implications of Christmas gift-giving in the United States have reached opposite conclusions. Joel Waldfogel (1993) finds a welfare reduction of 13 percent or more associated with Christmas giving. Curiously, Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway’s (1996) (henceforth, SH) replication of Waldfogel’s survey turns up just the opposite result: a 214-per...

Prior research on gift giving has often treated “making recipients happy” as interchangeable with “improving recipients’ welfare.” We propose givers’ motive to make recipients happy is better understood as a desire to induce positive affective reactions, such as a smile from recipients. This “smile-seeking” motive yields a mismatch between gift choices and recipients’ preferences, because attri...