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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental ﬁndings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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When ignorance is bliss : information asymmetries enhance prosocial behavior in dictator games

Winschel, Evguenia; Zahn, Philipp - 2014

knowledge. To assess the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …

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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments … using targeted give-aways to certain donors. A simpler fundraising strategy using only the social dimension of donor …

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Prosociality spillovers of working with others

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2018

Group compensation and public announcement of performance are two common aspects of working with other people. We randomly assign these aspects to real-effort tasks. Following task completion and payment, subjects are given an unexpected opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group...

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The bonus-income donation norm

Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …

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Bracelets of pride and guilt? : an experimental test of self-signaling in charitable giving

Weele, Joël J. van der; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014

experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks. …

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …

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Pro-social behavior, reciprocity or both?

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2002

Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...

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Gender effects in dictator game giving : women favour female recipients

Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: April 22, 2018

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...

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The pledging puzzle : how can revocable promises increase charitable giving?

Andreoni, James; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2019

donors, such as expressions of gratitude. In an experiment, we find that offering the option to pledge gifts induces self …

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