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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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for participants claiming warm glow as their primary motivation, its shape is increasing and concave. Nevertheless …
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experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...
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quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …
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experiment corroborates these findings and confirms that donors are motivated by the economic value of the items offered. We also … overestimated. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health …
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Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
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Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when …
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