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Does online salience predict charitable giving? : evidence from SMS text donations
Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberly A.; Talavera, Oleksandr; … - 2021
We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities'...
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Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
We investigate whether the field of study influences university students' political attitudes. To disentangle self-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with their political attitudes. In a second step we...
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Quality-aware tax incentives for charitable contributions
Halberstam, Zachary; Hines, James R. - 2023
This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...
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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures the...
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Regional origins of employment volatility : evidence from German states
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
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Assessing the "Choosiness" of job seekers : an exploratory approach and evidence for Italy
Trivellato, Ugo; Giraldo, Anna - 2003
We use data about job search and work preferences, typically collected in a Labour Force Survey, in order to construct an indicator of .choosiness. of the supply of job-seekers. The method for obtaining the indicator, first at individual level and then at aggregate levels, is based on results...
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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace
Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …
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Why is workplace sexual harassment underreported? : the value of outside options amid the threat of retaliation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Knepper, Matthew - 2021
Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence … economic incentives for victims of workplace sexual harassment to remain silent. We find the selectivity of sexual harassment …
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Willingness to pay for workplace safety
Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021
This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety …
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Trust and workplace performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019
's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially … dissonance between the assessments of the two sides as to the quality of industrial relations at the workplace. All trust … two more favored trust measures that any one type of formal workplace representation - either works councils or union …
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