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-85.<P> In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving …-pay auction and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the … laboratory, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
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This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment …
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We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize …
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prefer a delayed resolution of risk due to positive anticipatory emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with …
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The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experiment …
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The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that …
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paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …
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-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
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