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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024
experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure …Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …
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Peer-to-peer solar and social rewards : evidence from a field experiment
Carattini, Stefano; Gillingham, Kenneth; Meng, Xiangyu; … - 2022
study implements a field experiment to examine the influence of observability in the context of a novel pro-social behavior …
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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior
Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024
In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...
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Lab in the field : measuring preferences in the wild
Genîzî, Ûrî; Imas, Alex - 2016
In this chapter, we discuss the "lab-in-the-field" methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been used to...
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Opting-in to prosocial incentives
Schwartz, Daniel; Keenan, Elizabeth A.; Imas, Alex; … - 2017
Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives - where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization - can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's decisions...
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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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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Socializing alone : how online homophily has undermined social cohesion in the US
Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Russo, Gianluca; … - 2024
We examine the long-run effect of homophily in online social networks on interpersonal interactions in local communities. We measure online homophily across counties in the US using Facebook data. For identification, we exploit a conflict between Facebook and Google over data sharing of user...
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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 … any of the treatments. -- pro-social behavior ; field experiment ; effort ; charitable donations …
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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …
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