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We present novel data linking other-regarding behavior outside of a laboratory with a participant's moral foundations, demographics, and opinions/awareness of social problems. These data were originally collected for Study 2 of O'Grady et al. (2019). Anonymous, paid participants were recruited through the online labor market Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Mturk workers located in the United States and meeting MTurk's "Masters Qualification" were offered $0.50 to complete a short survey. We used the moral foundations questionnaire (MFQ) developed by Graham et al. (2009) to classify participants based on their moral intuitions. After participants completed the MFQ and six diversion questions about their opinions and awareness of current social problems, we measured other-regarding behavior through an incentivized experiment. Respondents were awarded a $1 bonus and the option to donate any part of their bonus to a charity with the promise of a matching donation made by the researchers. Participants could only donate to one of three predefined charities and charity options were randomly assigned to respondents within three separate data collection waves. In addition, the dataset contains detailed information regarding situational details of the survey task including survey date, time of day, duration between worker request and recruitment, survey completion time, and performance on attention checks.
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In the late 18th century hundreds self-governing alpine communities in Northern Italy came under the direct control of centralized states (Austria and France) at different times. We exploit the timing and location of these interventions in a DD type design to investigate the effects of removing CPR institutions on biological welfare. We find a significant and persistent increase in infant mortality rates and a more modest decrease in birth rates as a result of state centralization. We provide evidence that these demographic changes reflect a critical loss of natural resource income caused by the disruption of communal institutions. Impacts are most severe in communities that have no prior experience with formal institutions.