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Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
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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 …
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individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain …
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between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …
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We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …
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experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … members of the two groups indicating that subjects in this experiment do not treat charitable giving as a normal good. …
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We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that …
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We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker’s rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva’s (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...
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