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Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Goette, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2008
blood donations rather than an increase. This paper providesan empirical test of how material incentives aect blood … types of incentive: a lottery ticket and a free cholesterol test. Lottery tickets signicantlyincrease donations, in … particular among less motivated donors. The cholesterol test leads tono discernable impact on usable blood donations. If anything …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025043
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Meier, Stephan; Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper experimentally examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and wellregarded by others - as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763864
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A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
Meier, Stephan - 2014
In recent years, a large number of economic theories have evolved to explain people's pro-social behavior and the variation in their respective behavior. This paper surveys economic theories on pro-social behavior and presents evidence - mainly from the field - testing these theories. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709702
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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2009
This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on charitable giving. Households are randomly divided into three treatments, distinguished by the possibility for respondents to donate cash, by debit card, or both. I find that due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719038
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Wallflowers Doing Good: Field and Lab Evidence of Heterogeneity in Reputation Concerns
Jones, Daniel; Linardi, Sera - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2012
An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...
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Does team competition increase pro-social lending? Evidence from online microfinance
Chen, Roy; Chen, Yan; Liu, Yang; Mei, Qiaozhu - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 2014
We investigate the effects of team competition on pro-social lending activity on Kiva.org, the first microlending website to match lenders with entrepreneurs in developing countries. Using naturally occurring field data, we find that lenders who join teams contribute 1.2 more loans ($30-$42) per...
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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214026
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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the <I>Journal of Public Economics</I> (2013). Volume 105, pages 72-85.<P> In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255620
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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study
Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Ben; Ray, … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262875
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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study
Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Benjamin; … - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2015
Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264945