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Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
Hahn, Robert; Ritz, Robert - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
tension between altruism and "crowding-out" effects (players' efforts are strategic substitutes). We find that more altruistic …
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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An Experimental Test of the Public Goods Crowing Out Hypothesis when Taxation Is Endogenous
Sutter, Matthias; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 1, pp. 94-94
Andreoni (1993) has shown in an experimental study that crowding out is incomplete when an involuntary lump-sum tax is levied exogenously on individuals to finance the provision of a public good. In this paper, we (i) replicate Andreoni's experimental conditions, and (ii) introduce treatments...
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Experimental Economics and Other-Regarding Preferences: Public Goods Experiments
Croson, Rachel - Econometric Society - 2004
This talk will describe a stream of research in experimental economics focusing on the illumination and demonstration of other-regarding preferences (ORPs). Evidence will come primarily from public goods experiments, but also bargaining games (ultimatum, dictator, trust, ...
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The counterintuitive effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving
Newman, George E.; Jeremy Shen, Y. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 5, pp. 973-983
Six experiments examined the effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving. Results indicate that although people expect that the offer of thank-you gifts will increase donations, such offers actually reduce charitable donations. This effect was obtained across a wide variety of charities and...
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P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision
Kairies, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We … assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as … greedy. We show that better reputational motivation unambiguously reduces the costs of healthcare provision and the magnitude …
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What's important for you in life? A general and pluralistic model of economic agents’ motivation
Zibell, Laurent - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 503-515
-interest and a generic altruism. It addresses the potential weakness of ‘altruism’ theories that the number of ‘others’ claiming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577423
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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria
Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015
cooperative motivation when they know the other subject's payoff information. Altruistic motivation is found to be rare throughout … the experiment. …
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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd out Prosocial Behavior?
Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kvaløy, Ola - CESifo - 2014
In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...
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An experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis
Hörisch, Hannah; Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test … of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across …
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