Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243399 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2021/73
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper presents a framed field experiment on ecological altruism in Mindoro, Philippines. Behavioural differences between ethnic groups in Mindoro-the Tagalogs and the Mangyans-were investigated. We designed a two-part donation task (i.e. dictator game) where the recipient of the donation was a local reforestation project. There were two treatments: participants played either the giving game (GG) or the taking game (TG). In the first part (GG), respondents were asked how much they will donate towards reforestation; in the second part (TG), respondents were asked how much money they will take away from the project and keep for themselves. The second part was the same as the first, but participants were asked what they will do if a hypothetical partner, who was either the same or different ethnicity, donated half of the initial endowment to reforestation. Results indicate that Mangyans, who are predominantly farmers, tend to give more in the TG than the GG. Tagalog respondents were not sensitive to framing. Finally, other-ethnicity dynamics did not have a strong effect.
Subjects: 
framed field experiment
reforestation
dictator game
framing
JEL: 
C90
Q23
Q56
Q57
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9267-011-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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