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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2022

This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London … Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London …. The scheme imposes charges on most types of cars entering, exiting and operating within the Central London area, while …

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The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health

Dustmann, Christian - 2014

experienced by in the direct aftermath of the London Bombings of Jul 7th, 2005 …

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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19 : Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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Social Incentives Matter : Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco - 2012

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...

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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Bénabou, Roland - 2009

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

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Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection

Briscese, Guglielmo; Feltovich, Nick; Slonim, Robert - 2021

Firms can donate a share of profits to charity as a form of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Recent experiments have found that such initiatives can induce higher effort by workers, generating benefits for both sides of the labour market. We design a novel version of the gift-exchange game...

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Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2015

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...

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Are Employees Better Off in Socially Responsible Firms?

Tamm, Katrin - 2011

The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...

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Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well : The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Cassar, Lea - 2017

Prosocial incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives are seen by many firms as an effective way to motivate workers. Recent empirical results seem to support the expectation that prosocial incentive, e.g. in the form of a charitable donations by the firm, can increase...

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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...

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