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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

inform fundraising choices. …

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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016

People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...

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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment

Grout, Paul A. (contributor); … - 2008

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...

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Social media charity campaigns and pro-social behaviour : evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2023

Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...

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Digital labor-market intermediation and job expectations : evidence from a field experiment

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - 2013

subjective job gain expectations in Peru. Results show that jobseekers who received digital intermediation based on a large … channel, no significant effects were found when labor-market intermediation is based on a restricted (short) set of … information. -- subjective expectations ; labor-market intermediation ; ICT ; field experiments ; Peru …

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Integrating mobile phone technologies into labor-market intermediation : a multi-treatment experimental design

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - 2015

-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS … results show positive and significant short-term effects on employment for public labor-market intermediation. While the … impacts from traditional labor-market intermediation are not large enough to be statistically significant, the unrestricted …

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show …

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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa; Schaner, Simone; … - 2021

ultimately have better migration experiences. This offers a new perspective on the importance of information and matching …

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Assessing dishonesty in cocoa value chains : lab-in-the-field evidence from middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire

Boutin, Delphine; Jouvin, Marine; Olié, Louis - 2024

This study investigates dishonest behavior among cocoa middlemen in Côte d'Ivoire, focusing on the role of observability and financial penalties in deterring such behavior. Using on a modified version of the "die-under-cup task", we examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over...

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