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Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Control without deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000

experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …

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Payment choice, image motivation and contributions to charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Final version: 04 August, 2010

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...

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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 … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

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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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Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays arepeated public good game to astrangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations.Subjects in the partners conditioncontribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good...

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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts

Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007

This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....

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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …

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Incentives and the sorting of altruistic agents into street-level bureaucracies

Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010

-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …

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