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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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We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …
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. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …
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begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public …
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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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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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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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This paper investigates the responsiveness of individuals' retirement expectations to forward-looking measures of pension wealth accumulations. While most of the existing literature on retirement has used cross-sectional variation to identify the effects of pension and Social Security wealth on...
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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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