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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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We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers …
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This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro …-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …
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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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contributions. In our randomized field experiment, opera visitors received solicitation letters asking to support a social youth …
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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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between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …
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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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Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …
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-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
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