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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment: A laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016

the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … whether he was perhaps overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients … found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

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Comparing charitable fundraising schemes: Evidence from a natural field experiment and a structural model

Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran; Shephard, Andrew - 2013

We present evidence from a natural field experiment and structural model designed to shed light on the efficacy of alternative fundraising schemes. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera, we mailed 25,000 opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the...

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Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018

We provide the first field evidence pointing at the role of pure self-image, inde-pendent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals appear to engage in self-deception to...

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Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018

We study intertemporal crowding between two fundraising campaigns for the same charitable organization by manipulating donors’ beliefs about the likelihood of future campaigns in two subsequent field experiments. The data shows that initial giving is decreasing in the likelihood of a future...

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Matching donations without crowding out? Some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2016

Is there a way of matching donations that avoids crowding out? We introduce a novel matching method where the matched amount is allocated to a different project, present some simple theoretical considerations that predict reduced crowding out or more crowding in (depending on the degree of...

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A note on charitable giving by corporates and aristocrats: Evidence from a field experiment

Bassi, Vittorio; Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - 2016

Multiple sources of funding are becoming increasingly important for charitable organizations. Donations from corporate donors for example account for 25-35% of charitable income for the largest US charities, across charitable sectors. This note presents some tentative first evidence from a...

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Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan

Adena, Maja; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Huck, Steffen - 2020

Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle- or high-income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor, although the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field experiment with...

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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? A field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2021

Some companies engage in mass fundraising in addition to their core business. Via a corporate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, ask avoidance, if present, could imply that fundraising activities may harm a company's core business. We examine how asking for...

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Voluntary 'donations' versus reward-oriented 'contributions': Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2022

In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word 'donation' generated higher revenue than the use of 'contribution'. While the individuals receiving the...

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Testing consumer theory: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - 2017

We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on whether individual behavior is consistent with a neoclassical model of utility maximization subject to budget constraints. We do this through the lens of a field experiment on charitable giving. We find that the...

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