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Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions Evidence from a Field Experiment
Adena, Maja - 2014
When asking for donations, charitable organizations often use suggestions concerning the amount of potential contributions. In our randomized field experiment, opera visitors received solicitation letters asking to support a social youth project organized by the opera house. The three different...
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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - CESifo - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099049
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace : A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021
-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are … elicited. We find that action-oriented altruism accounts for a significant increase in effort, while there is no additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316327
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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ockenfels, Axel - 2014
We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers' performance is about 11% higher for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050418
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Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information - A Field Experiment on Motivation
Casarico, Alessandra - 2018
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920114
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Free-Riding in the Lab and in the Field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2021
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We compare results within subjects. In the free-riding treatment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315959
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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014
We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877759
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009
-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are … elicited. We find that action-oriented altruism accounts for a significant increase in effort, while there is no additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013946
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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen - 2015
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030492
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156