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Gun For Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

Andreoni, James - 2011

This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....

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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids … communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between …

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Are the Rich More Selfish than the Poor, or Do They Just Have More Money? A Natural Field Experiment

Andreoni, James - 2017

prevent safe inferences about differences in social preferences. We present new evidence from a natural field experiment in …

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Avoiding The Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving

Andreoni, James - 2011

experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main … awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...

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Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK

Andreoni, James - 2013

We present new evidence on the effect of grants on charities' incomes. We employ a novel identification strategy, focusing on charities that applied for lottery grant funding and comparing outcomes for successful and unsuccessful applicants. Overall, grants do not crowd out other income but the...

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Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada : New Knowledge from the North

Andreoni, James - 2011

Using data from charitable organizations in the US, authors have established that government grants to charities largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over...

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Predicting Social Tipping and Norm Change in Controlled Experiments

Andreoni, James - 2020

. We present evidence from a large-scale lab experiment designed to test the theoretical predictions of a threshold model …

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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire : Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

Duflo, Esther - 2004

We study resource allocation within households in Côte d'Ivoire. In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of...

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The Hired Gun Mechanism

Andreoni, James - 2011

We present and experimentally test a mechanism that provides a simple, natural, low cost, and realistic solution to the problem of compliance with socially determined efficient actions, such as contributing to a public good. We note that small self-governing organizations often place enforcement...

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