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We conducted a natural field experiment to explore the effect of price changes on charitable contributions. To … design of fundraising campaigns and provide avenues for future empirical and theoretical work on charitable giving. Further …
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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 …
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on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to …
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.40 for an out-of-state charity. Our welfare calculations suggest that our door-to-door fund-raising campaigns on average … to altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, for example, due to social … important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …
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setup to identify voluntary contributions to local public goods. The experiment enables individuals to contribute to a … complementary experiment, to identify donations to a nutrition program, suggest that positive beliefs about short-term learning …
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This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled labo- ratory experiment to examine the …
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an artefactual field experiment. We examine their choices between varying levels of compensation received in two or four …
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Whether rationality of economic behavior increases with expected payoffs and decreases with the cognitive cost it takes to formulate an optimal strategy remains an open question. We explore these issues with field data, using individual bids from sealed-bid auctions in which we sold nearly...
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The role of anonymity in giving is examined in a field experiment performed in thirty Dutch churches. For a period of … internal cause. This result can be explained by the presence of social incentives, but is also in line with recent studies … showing that asymmetric information about the quality of the charity leads to increased contributions. …
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William Vickrey's predicted equivalences between first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, and between second-price sealed-bid and English auctions, are tested using field experiments that auctioned off collectible trading cards over the Internet. The results indicate that the Dutch auction...
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