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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self image …
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Motivating altruism: a field study
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...
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Will there be blood? Incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic...
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Do all material incentives for prosocial activities backfire? The response to cash and non-cash incentives for blood donations
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2009
Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 blood donors in an Italian town, and find that...
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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Working for a good cause
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2012
reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting to the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and …
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Social image concerns and pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2008
Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with medals when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations...
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Group membership, competition, and altruistic versus antisocial punishment: Evidence from randomly assigned army groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan; Sutter, … - 2010
We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the …
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