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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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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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Intention-based reciprocity and the hidden costs of control
Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2011
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Keynesian multipliers, direct crowding out, and the optimal provision of public goods
Heijdra, Ben J.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 1995
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Fiscal deficits, financial fragility, and the effectiveness of government policies
Kirchner, Markus; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2012
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Do early-ending conditional cash transfer programs crowd out school enrollment?
Wiegand, Martin - 2019
This paper explores how a conditional cash transfer program influences students' schooling decisions when program payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico's Progresa, which covered students only until the end of middle school (at age 15) in its early years....
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Crowded trades, market clustering, and price instability
Kralingen, Marc van; Garlaschelli, Diego; Scholtus, Karolina - 2020
Crowded trades by similarly trading peers influence the dynamics of asset prices, possibly creating systemic risk. We propose a market clustering measure using granular trading data. For each stock the clustering measure captures the degree of trading overlap among any two investors in that...
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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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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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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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