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' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much to pay) in a natural experiment at an online music store with PWYW …%. The experiment suggests that even low levels of social pressure without face to face interaction on customers leads to a …
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Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and …-demographic information have limited predictive power in both treatments. -- artefactual field experiment ; children ; envy ; altruism …
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We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable …
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much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … is needed to identify what, then, drives the development of envy during childhood. -- artefactual field experiment …
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-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling …
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Costly signaling of commitment to a group has been proposed as an explanation for participation in religion and ritual. But if the signal’s cost is too small, freeriders will send the signal and behave selfishly later. Effective signaling may then be prohibitively costly. If the average level...
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Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...
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Participants in a public goods experiment receive private or common signals regarding the so-called "point of no return …
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capture the structural difference of screening and signaling only via their payoff specification. The experiment thus relies …
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External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the projectś feasibility. Our...
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