This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters … warm-glow motive. Second, the paper confirms the economic relevance of reciprocity by using field data. This extends the …

, real decisions and have the opportunity to learn from experience? We report on a field experiment designed to address this …

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to …

Recent policy initiatives offer cash payments to children (and often their families) to induce better health and … educational choices. These policies implicitly assume that children are especially impatient (i.e., have high discount rates …); however, little is known about the nature of children's patience, how it varies across children, and whether children can even …

reinforcement learning, conditional cooperation, inertia, preference for consistency, and limited attention. Our findings point to a …

We conduct experiments in urban slums to measure trust and cooperation and to see how behavior varies with demographic …

their strength in different age groups. In our experiment subjects interact with members of the same age group. We find that …

We conducted a natural field experiment to explore the effect of price changes on charitable contributions. To …

important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …