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insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …
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According to Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, 2000), we show...
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We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if …
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In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work … incentives ; bonus payments ; pay-for-performance contracts ; workplace behavior ; field experiment … backed up by monetary incentives. We propose a novel incentive contract where - through the choice of a personal work goal …
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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law …. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of …
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labor situation a principal gives an upfront wage to an agent (who is unaware that he is participating in an experiment) and … respect to the expected principals' wealth. -- Field experiment ; gift-exchange ; reciprocity ; status ; virtual world …
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proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … first field experiment on moral rights revealing the true valuation of these rights by over 200 authors from 24 countries. A …
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the recipient is a charity. Prisoners give more, not less. …
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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law …. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267008
labor situation a principal gives an upfront wage to an agent (who is unaware that he is participating in an experiment) and …
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