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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 - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25
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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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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How important is pro-social behaviour in the delivery of public services?
Gregg, Paul; Grout, Paul A.; Ratcliffe, Anita; Smith, Sarah - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 758-766
A number of papers have suggested that pro-social behaviour in the workplace may be sensitive to the institutional environment, but there is little empirical research that attempts to test this directly using data on worker behaviour. This is the aim of this paper. We show that individuals in...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548063
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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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Public and private environmental spending: a political economy approach
Jouvet, Pierre-André; Michel, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 9 (2008) 3, pp. 177-191
altruism by leaving financial bequests, but also by voting and contributing to the environmental quality their children will …
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Moral Behaviour, Altruism and Environmental Policy
Daube, Marc; Ulph, David - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2014
consumer behaviour and the optimal environmental tax are independent of the degree of altruism. For behaviour to change …, then altruism matters and the greater the degree of altruism the more individuals cut back their consumption of a ’dirty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937851
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Giving in South Africa: Determining the influence of altruism, inequality aversion and social capital
Tirivayi J.N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
giving to formal charities and beggars. Results suggest that both impure altruism and inequality aversion positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004574