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experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated …
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To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...
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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957473
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911199
experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024901
Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631427
Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960265