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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009
impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013946
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
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Gender and the labour market: evidence from experiments
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the labour market. Dr Ghazala Azmat and Professor Barbara Petrongolo explore what has been learned about the extent to which differences in men and women's pay and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765692
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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014
We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...
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Free-Riding in the Lab and in the Field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - CESifo - 2011
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We compare results within subjects. In the free-riding treatment,...
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Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - CESifo - 2014
When asking for donations, charitable organizations often use suggestions concerning the amount of potential contributions. In our randomized field experiment, opera visitors received solicitation letters asking to support a social youth project organized by the opera house. The three different...
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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - CESifo - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099049
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Children Do Not Behave Like Adults: Gender Gaps in Performance and Risk Taking within a Random Social Context in the High-StakesGame Shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy
Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren - CESifo - 2014
-stakes game, and controlling for performance differences, there is no gender gap in risk-taking among girls and boys in contrast …
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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation
Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children’s education. This result holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766188
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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...
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