Previous research finds that individuals tend to donate more to charitable and non-profit organizations when their activities are publicly recognized. In this research, we find that public recognition may discourage individual giving in certain cases. We conducted a field experiment to investigate how public recognition influences individual charitable giving. We designed five schemes to recogn...

The concept of legitimate peripheral participation was developed by considering informal learning contexts. However, its applicability to school classrooms is problematic. This is particularly so when teacher centred and decontextualised procedural practices predominate as they do in usual school mathematics classrooms. Different meanings of participation in community of practice theory are ide...

The idea that cooperative groups out-compete less cooperative groups has been proposed as a theoretical possibility for the evolution of cooperation through cultural group selection. Previous studies have found an association between increased cooperation and exposure to inter-group violence, but most have not been able to identify the specific target of cooperation and are based on correlation...

Around 14% of the UK labour force has informal care responsibilities and almost everyone in society will be an informal carer in their lifetime. A well-known fact in the small economic literature on informal care is the apparent negative relation between care responsibilities and labour market participation. Yet, caring and labour market participation may be endogenous. Using an instrumental va...

The impact of religion on business has attracted cross-academic attention in recent years. Does the religious atmosphere corporate social responsibility (CSR)? This study addressed this question using a sample Chinese-listed companies from 2010 to 2018. Our findings reveal that firms regions with Taoist-dominated are more charitable and less environmentally invested. In contrast, Buddhist-domin...

PURPOSE Widowhood eliminates a key source of support that may trigger greater involvement in social activities and volunteer participation, which are related to better late-life health and functioning. We reexamine and build upon 2 recent studies exploring recent widowhood and social participation. Using different data, we perform a quasi-replication of Utz, Carr, Nesse, and Wortman's (2002; "T...

Abstract Older adults' engagement in various prosocial activities is a salient question present-day societies that aim to promote active ageing. However, there are only few studies focusing on associations between several types of activities, and they have rarely considered help relatives friends separately. Moreover, lack considering informal monetary charity donations when analysing multiple ...