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Self-Signaling and Prosocial Behavior : a Cause Marketing Mobile Field Experiment

Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015

crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative … theories of motivation crowding are unable to fit the non-monotonic moments in the data. A structural model of self …

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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2008

This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...

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Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2009

A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less sensitive to inflation than in...

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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...

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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Karlan, Dean - 2014

effectiveness, whereas small prior donors decrease their giving. We motivate the analysis and experiment with a theoretical model … that highlights two predictions. First, larger gift amounts, holding education and income constant, is a proxy for altruism …). Second, those motivated by altruism will respond positively to appeals based on evidence, whereas those motivated by warm …

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Voting for burden sharing rules in public goods games

Gallier, Carlo; Kesternich, Martin; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

In this experiment, we endogenize the choice of which contribution scheme is implemented in a public goods game. We …

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We investigate how burden sharing rules may impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes that are based on the principle of the smallest common denominator: all agents can suggest a minimum...

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What makes an allocation fair? : Some experimental evidence

Andreoni, J.; Brown, P.M.; Vesterlund, L. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1999

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Cooperation in Public Goods Experiments: Kindness or Confusion?

Andreoni, J. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1993

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Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation

Dannenberg, Astrid; Riechmann, Thomas; Sturm, Bodo; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...

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