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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 … problem. We report on a field experiment the results of which show that donors who have pledged an amount are indeed more …
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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 …, 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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377596
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2016
-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572717
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688518
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012
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
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Grow rich while you sleep : selection in experiments with voluntary participation
Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349714
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Knowing that you matter, matters! : the interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337021
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338674