Data and Stata commands to accompany Luccasen and Thomas "Should We Fight Poverty or Reduce Its Harm? How the Language of Moral Foundations Theory Affect Donations to Poverty-Relief Charities"

Stata commands and data to accompnay Luccasen and Thomas "Should We Fight Poverty or Reduce Its Harm? How the Language of Moral Foundations Theory Affect Donations to Poverty-Relief Charities." Abstract: Depending on group identity, people tend to use different language when discussing poverty and respond to different moral values. We design an experiment to study how the language and moral values identified by moral foundations theory affect donations to poverty relief charities. One treatment uses language and moral values that progressives tend to use; one treatment is congruent for conservatives. We observe higher donations when the solicitation uses progressive themes such as caring and fairness. Conservatives drive our main result. Conservatives donate significantly more when presented with language and values that, in other contexts, tend to be used by progressives. JEL Codes: C90, D64, H41.Keywords: public good; poverty; charitable giving; moral foundations; experiment