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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
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Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
Wilhelm, Mark - 2014
experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …
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The Behavioralist Goes to School : Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance
Levitt, Steven D. - 2012
, we find substantial incentive effects from both financial and non-financial incentives on test scores. Second, we find … that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … motivating power of the incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay. Since the rewards to educational investment …
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Retirement Incentives and Expectations
Chan, Sewin; Stevens, Ann Huff - 2021
This paper investigates the responsiveness of individuals' retirement expectations to forward-looking measures of pension wealth accumulations. While most of the existing literature on retirement has used cross-sectional variation to identify the effects of pension and Social Security wealth on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217591
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You Owe Me
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2012
effective in reducing the effect of gifts, consistent with our model. Financial incentives ameliorate the effect of the gift but …
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The Demand for Bad Policy When Voters Underappreciate Equilibrium Effects
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2016
against policies that impose direct costs even if they induce larger indirect benefits. Using a lab experiment, we find that a …
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Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability
Leight, Jessica - 2018
Community targeting of vote payments — defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections — is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya to demonstrate that, relative to individual...
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Testing Motives for Charitable Giving : A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence
Deb, Rahul - 2012
consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many …
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Small Victories : Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Savings and Debt Reduction
Brown, Alexander L. - 2014
Saving when faced with the immediate option to spend is an unpleasant but not conceptually difficult task. One popular approach contradicts traditional economic theory by suggesting that people in debt should pay off their debts from smallest size to largest regardless of interest rate, to...
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Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Li, Jinhu - 2011
Explicit financial incentives, especially pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives, have been extensively employed in … exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada to identify empirically the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and …
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