Using a change in EU food aid policy in 1996 as an instrument for EU food aid allocation, I investigate how other donors react to the EU’s food aid allocation. At that time, the EU suddenly divided by two the number of its food aid recipients. On average, other donors imitate the EU at both extensive and intensive margins. Donors’ reactions are heterogeneous: European countries and Canada herd the EU, while the World Food Programme substitutes. The USA do not react. Those results can be explained by competition for relative impact and information effects. For a recipient country who constantly received food aid from the EU before 1996, the number of donors decreases by almost 0.5. This behavior reinforces the problem of orphan and darling recipients.

我使用1996年欧盟粮食援助政策的变化作为欧盟粮食援助分配的工具，研究了其他捐助者对欧盟粮食援助分配的反应。当时，欧盟突然将接受粮食援助的人数除以二。平均而言，其他捐助者在广泛和密集的方面都模仿欧盟。捐助者的反应是多种多样的：欧洲国家和加拿大是欧盟的羊群，而世界粮食计划署则是替代者。美国没有反应。可以通过竞争相对影响和信息效果来解释这些结果。对于在1996年之前一直从欧盟获得粮食援助的受援国而言，捐助国的数量几乎减少了0.5。此行为加剧了孤儿和亲爱的收件人的问题。