experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they … personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser …

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than …

We study the dynamics of the private provision of a public good that requires both capacity buildup and ongoing … contributions when the group of contributors attributes high intrinsic value to the public good. More specifically, we find that … determine that gender and culture affect the pattern of contributions. We also find that individuals prefer to contribute to …

influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others' behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game …

about peers' donations affect one's own likelihood of donation. We test our theory using novel "threshold match" treatments … in field and laboratory experiments. These treatments form small groups and offer a flat matching bonus if a threshold … number of donations is received. One "threshold match" treatment more than doubles the donation rate in the field relative to …

The ability to punish free-riders can increase the provision of public goods. However, sometimes the benefit of … increased public good provision is outweighed by the costs of punishments. One reason a group may punish to the point that net … aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …

This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal … and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …