Showing 1 - 10 of 448
The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off … problem. We report on a field experiment the results of which show that donors who have pledged an amount are indeed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844580
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 …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386444
-in-the-field experiment. Our design treatments aim to increase the efficiency of crowdfunding campaigns by raising aggregate contributions and … window we implement our crowdfunding experiment using a web-based user interface with multiple threshold public goods …-up framed field experiment with actual nature conservation projects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772892
This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377596
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378827
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their … the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337021
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student …-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399683
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative … performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382591
incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance -- in particular when the incentive … plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722656
We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain with 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance depends …. Conversely, team incentives may lead to more co-worker support or to higher peer pressure and thereby can affect the team …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026123