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for participants claiming warm glow as their primary motivation, its shape is increasing and concave. Nevertheless …
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quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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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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, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …
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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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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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personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
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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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Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when …
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