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Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace

Lent, Max van - 2017

We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...

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A commercial gift for charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Te, Bao; Schippers, Anouk L. - 2016

charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report …, complete markets, and absent transaction cost, selling charity-linked bundles should not be profitable even when consumers are … significantly higher profits. No such effect is observed when the donation is limited to 2%. Offering charity-linked bundles …

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Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity

Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018

The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off-line fund raising activities. Cash and card payments differ in that the latter do not require individuals to donate at the time of the ask, disconnecting the decision to give from the...

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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011

In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …

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Crowdfunding public goods : an experiment

Ansink, Erik; Koetse, Mark; Bouma, Jetske A.; Hauck, Dominic - 2017

We assess the impact of different crowdfunding designs on the success of crowdfunded public goods using a lab-in-the-field experiment. Our design treatments aim to increase the efficiency of crowdfunding campaigns by raising aggregate contributions and decreasing possible coordination problems...

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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