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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755507

Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

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

: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …

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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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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015

-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean … (SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

overall charitable donations. We discuss the implications of our experimental results for both theory and policy. …

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...

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Contribution games and the end-game effect : when things get real ; an experimental analysis

Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2013

We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed. -- public...

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Intertemporal altruism

Anand Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others - it is consequence-dated - or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...

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