Table A.2: Predicted probabilities of main topics

Notes: The table lists the ten most frequent words for each of the three topics identified in the text analysis of the open-ended answers reporting the motivations for the donation decisions. More specifically, the values represent the estimated probability to see each word, conditional on a topic. We relied on the Stata command ldagibbs (Shwartz, 2018). The English translation of the words in the "Necessities" topic, from first to last, are: Necessity, first, goods, need, money, solidarity, food, prefer, things, goods. For the Help/Moral topic: To help, need, people, help, difficulty, right, euro, was, I can, small. For the Skepticism/Mistrust topic: Money, nobody, arrive, associations, I prefer, mistrust, need, gift, end up.
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