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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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and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …
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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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mostly do not follow through. Our theory shows that having people to formally state the intended amount may alleviate this …
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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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We experimentally investigate strategic communication about the impact of prosocial actions, which is central to policy debates about foreign aid or the environment. In our experiment, a "sender" receives an informative but noisy signal about the impact of a charitable donation. She then sends a...
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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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This paper provides empirical evidence that campaign contributions arestrongly associated with market expectations of future firm-specific political favors,including preferential access to external financing. Using a novel dataset, we find thatfirms in Brazil providing contributions in the 1998...
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
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