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Crowd-out and diversity
Hungerman, Daniel M. - In: Journal of public economics 93 (2009) 5/6, pp. 729-740
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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844819
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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust
Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023
and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319160
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Why volunteer? : Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Why volunteer? : evidence on the role of altruism, image, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin K. - In: Journal of public economics 94 (2010) 11/12, pp. 911-920
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training
Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019
Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...
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Quality, quantity and total expenditures on publicly provided goods : the case of public mental hospitals
Frank, Richard G. - In: Journal of public economics 29 (1986) 3, pp. 295-316
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An experimental test of the crowding out hypothesis
Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip Johnson; … - In: Journal of public economics 89 (2005) 8, pp. 1543-1560
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Will there be blood? : incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009
experiment corroborates these findings and confirms that donors are motivated by the economic value of the items offered. We also … overestimated. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health …
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