ENDOWMENTS, PERCEIVED SIMILARITY, AND DICTATOR GIVING.
A common assumption of money is that it is fungible. An implication of this assumption is that the source of money does not affect economic decision making. We find evidence contradicting this fungibility assumption. Specifically, we explore how the perception of an endowment source influences amoun...
| Published in: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 1130 - 1145 |
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