Natural disasters have been shown to produce effects on social capital, risk and time preferences of damaged individuals. We run trust and dictator game experiments on a sample of Sri Lankan microfinance borrowers affected/unaffected from the Tsunami in 2004 at a 7-year distance from the event. We find that people who suffered at least a damage from the catastrophic event tend to behave less altruistically as senders than those who do not report any damage. Interestingly, damages that turn into economic losses are the major inhibitors of generosity relative to other kind of damages.
Calamity, Aid and Indirect Reciprocity: the Long Run Impact of Tsunami on Altruism
Castriota S;
2012-01-01
Abstract
Natural disasters have been shown to produce effects on social capital, risk and time preferences of damaged individuals. We run trust and dictator game experiments on a sample of Sri Lankan microfinance borrowers affected/unaffected from the Tsunami in 2004 at a 7-year distance from the event. We find that people who suffered at least a damage from the catastrophic event tend to behave less altruistically as senders than those who do not report any damage. Interestingly, damages that turn into economic losses are the major inhibitors of generosity relative to other kind of damages.File in questo prodotto:
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