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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity
Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006
Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … the fields of social sentiments, situations or relations, an intrinsic norm, or self-interested. Reciprocity, in which a …
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Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment
Fong, Christina M.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 5, pp. 372-394
We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative sample. We manipulate the perceived worthiness and race of the charities' recipients with an audiovisual...
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Appropriating the Commons - A Theoretical Explanation
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
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Fairness and motivation : fair treatment creates incentives, and is beneficial for workers and the frim
Falk, Armin - 2014
How do firms motivate their employees to be productive? The conventional wisdom is that workers respond to monetary incentives - "Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory and field experiments, surveys, and observational...
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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences
Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006
Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to … fact proper reciprocity). Reciprocity extends to important cases of aids inducing aids that are not strictly reciprocal. It … in questions of development. The theory of reciprocity shows and compares the various types of solutions of the …
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An impure public good model with lotteries in large groups
Cabrales, Antonio; Lugo, Haydée - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze the effect of a large group on an impure public goods model with lotteries. We show that as populations get large, and with selfish preferences, the level of contributions converges to the one given by voluntary contributions. With altruistic preferences (of the warm glow type), the...
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The effect of effectiveness: Donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Karlan, Dean S.; Wood, Daniel H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity’s effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program’s impact as measured by scientific research. The base script,...
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - In: Journal of Public Economics 114 (2014) C, pp. 58-74
This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the “volunteering puzzle” where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous...
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Testing deontological warm glow motivation for carbon abatements
Braaten, Ragnhild Haugli - In: Resource and Energy Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 96-109
Do people contribute to CO2 abatements even when these contributions are completely crowded out by a third party? This study reports from an experimental test of contributions to carbon abatements when the contributions are completely crowded out by the experimenter. Contributions are determined...
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Self-image and valuation of moral goods: Stated versus actual willingness to pay
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Svedsäter, Henrik - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 879-891
Hypothetical bias in stated-preference methods appears sometimes to be very large, and other times non-existent. This is here largely explained by a model where people derive utility from a positive self-image associated with morally commendable behavior. The results of a choice experiment are...
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