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Thank you for your interest in our survey. Your participation in this study will improve research on foreign aid.

This survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. As a token of our appreciation, we will be offering free food and coffee at the ICSD conference to every individual who completes our survey.

You may select either a $5 gift card to Starbucks (redeemable anytime at any location) or a voucher for a free salad from Sweetgreen (redeemable across the street from ICSD during Monday's lunch break). These gifts can only be claimed in person at ICSD. You can select your gift at that time. Both Starbucks and Sweetgreen are just across the street from Lerner Hall.

Also, participation in the study qualifies you for the chance to win a year's subscription to your choice of: Financial Times, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, or JSTOR. Winners will be notified by e-mail later in the fall.

Please note that you may only take the survey once. Any subsequent surveys taken by the same individual will be discarded.

By participating in this survey, you are taking part in a research study on foreign aid. This research is being conducted by researchers at Columbia University. If you have questions, please e-mail the lead researcher Allison Carnegie at [email protected]. This study is approved by the Columbia University Morningside Institutional Review Board (IRB) under protocol #AAAR2516. If at any time you have questions or concerns about your rights or welfare as a research subject, contact the Columbia University Morningside IRB at 1-212-851-7040 or 1-212-851-7044 (fax) or e-mail [email protected]. You do not have to participate in this survey and you may stop at any time, however, only participants with completed surveys will receive the rewards described above.

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Powerful countries and international organizations often give foreign aid to countries in need.

But they have limited budgets and have to prioritize which countries need aid the most.

Not all countries need foreign aid. It is the job of donors to figure out where valuable resources should go.

In this exercise, you will be asked to play the role of an aid agency in a major donor country.

Like an aid agency, you will have a fixed budget that you must allocate across several countries with varying needs and situations.

Please click "Next" to view your instructions.

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Please read the following instructions carefully.

Each round, you will allocate a hypothetical $100 across five different countries.

You can take as much time as you need to carefully consider which countries require the most assistance.

We will ask you to play 9 rounds.

There is no minimum amount you must give each country (it's okay to give $0 to one or some countries) and the maximum amount you can give any one country is $100.

You must allocate $100 each round.

We will provide you with some information from the World Bank to help you in your decisions.

We will show you the gross national income (GNI) per capita, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, the percentage of the population that is undernourished, and the maternal mortality ratio (# of deaths per 100,000 births).

Let's try an example. Please click "Next" to see an example of the exercise.

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  After reviewing the profiles above, carefully find each country's name in the list below and in the box next to it, record your desired allocation.

This is an example round only. Your answers to this question will be discarded.

Here are your instructions again, if you need to review them.

Each round, you will allocate a hypothetical $100 across five different countries.

You can take as much time as you need to carefully consider which countries require the most assistance.

We will ask you to play 9 rounds.

There is no minimum amount you must give each country (it's okay to give $0 to one or some countries) and the maximum amount you can give any one country is $100.

You must allocate $100 each round.

We will provide you with some information from the World Bank to help you in your decisions.

We will show you the gross national income (GNI) per capita, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, the percentage of the population that is undernourished, and the maternal mortality ratio (# of deaths per 100,000 births).

El Salvador 0

Zambia 0

Tonga 0

South Africa 0

Timor-Leste 0

Total 0

[NOTE: ORDER OF COUNTRIES LISTED IN RESPONSE BOX IS RANDOMIZED.]

[NOTE: PLACEMENT OF YELLOW/BLUE ON LEFT/RIGHT IS RANDOMIZED.]

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  After reviewing the profiles above, carefully find each country's name in the list below and in the box next to it, record your desired allocation.

This is an example round only. Your answers to this question will be discarded.

Here are your instructions again, if you need to review them.

Each round, you will allocate a hypothetical $100 across five different countries.

You can take as much time as you need to carefully consider which countries require the most assistance.

We will ask you to play 9 rounds.

There is no minimum amount you must give each country (it's okay to give $0 to one or some countries) and the maximum amount you can give any one country is $100.

You must allocate $100 each round.

We will provide you with some information from the World Bank to help you in your decisions.

We will show you the gross national income (GNI) per capita, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, the percentage of the population that is undernourished, and the maternal mortality ratio (# of deaths per 100,000 births).

El Salvador 0

Zambia 0

Tonga 0

South Africa 0

Timor-Leste 0

Total 0

[NOTE: ORDER OF COUNTRIES LISTED IN RESPONSE BOX IS RANDOMIZED.]

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