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Diversity and crowd-out : a theory of cold-glow giving
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003532598
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Value for money? : community targeting in vote-buying and politician accountability
Leight, Jessica; Foarta, Dana; Pande, Rohini; Ralston, Laura - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794505
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561613
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Crowding out and crowding in of private donations and government grants
Heutel, Garth - 2009
"A large literature examines the interaction of private and public funding of public goods and charities, much of it testing if public funding crowds out private funding. This paper makes two contributions to this literature. First, the crowding out effect could also occur in the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003849006
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463692
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979838
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Crowding in with impure altruism : theory and evidence from volunteerism in national parks
Kotchen, Matthew J.; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164702
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919831