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providing information on reference group behavior, we challenge this argument and conduct a framed-field experiment to analyze …
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cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the …
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This paper shows that the public provision of private goods may be justified on pure efficiency grounds in an environment where individuals have relative consumption concerns. By providing private goods, governments directly intervene in the consumption structure, and thereby have an instrument...
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matching method, some simple theoretical considerations, and evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment on charitable …
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large-scale natural field experiment and a laboratory experiment. Similar to findings in the literature, conventional … matching for the same project results in partial crowding out in the field experiment and, as predicted, crowding out is … reduced under the novel matching scheme. The lab experiment provides more fine-tuned evidence for the change in crowding and …
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-scale natural field experiment and a laboratory experiment. Similar to findings in the literature, conventional matching for the … same project results in partial crowding out in the field experiment and, as predicted, crowding out is reduced under the … novel matching scheme. The lab experiment provides more fine-tuned evidence for the change in crowding and yields further …
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A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...
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experiment, we explore how thresholds should be chosen depending on past donations. The optimal choice of thresholds is rather …
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