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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
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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Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity
Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018
mostly do not follow through. Our theory shows that having people to formally state the intended amount may alleviate this …
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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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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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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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Persuasion, justification and the communication of social impact
Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
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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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 …
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Group formation in a public good experiment : on the dynamics of social ties structures
Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999
agency theory. …
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Control without deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000
Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable,but is eschewed by experimental economists because it may pollute thepool of subjects. This paper proposes andimplements a new experimental design, the Conditional...
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