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Ethnic disparity in altruism towards reforestation: A social preference experiment in Mindoro, Philippines

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  • Revilla Molina, Imelda

    (University of the Philippines, Los Baños - College of Economics and Management)

  • Castillo, Katelyn

    (University of the Philippines, Los Baños - College of Economics and Management)

  • Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin

    (CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics)

Abstract

We conduct a framed field experiment in Mindoro, Philippines on ecological altruism. Behavioral differences between ethnic groups in Mindoro, the Tagalogs and the Mangyans, were investigated. We design a two-part donation task (i.e. dictator game) where the recipient of the donation is a local reforestation project. There were two treatments: They played either the giving game (GG) or the taking game (TG). In the first part, in GG, respondents were asked how much they will donate towards reforestation, while respondents in TG 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 as theirs, 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.

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  • Revilla Molina, Imelda & Castillo, Katelyn & Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin, 2021. "Ethnic disparity in altruism towards reforestation: A social preference experiment in Mindoro, Philippines," CERE Working Papers 2021:5, CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:slucer:2021_005
    DOI: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3801584
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    1. Imelda Revilla Molina & Katelyn Castillo & Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon, 2021. "Ethnic disparity in altruism towards reforestation: A social preference experiment in Mindoro, Philippines," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-73, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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    Keywords

    deforestation; ethnic differences; behavioral experiment; environmental economics.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General

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