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Avoiding the Sharp Tongue: Anticipated Written Messages Promote Fair Economic Exchange

Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2008

Research in economics and psychology has established that informal non-monetary sanctions, particularly expressions of negative emotion or disapproval, can enforce fair economic exchange. However, scholars are only beginning to understand the reasons non-monetary sanctions affect economic...

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Effects of In-Group Bias in a Gift-Exchange Transaction: A Theory of Employee Ownership and Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Bergstresser, Keith David - 2009

the results of a laboratory experiment designed to test both the assumptions and the predictions of the model described in …

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Green Giving: An Analysis of Contributions to Major U.S. Environmental Groups

Richer, Jerrell - 1995

Data are compiled from the tax records of 29 major environmental organizations for the period 1980-1994 to identify factors that influence voluntary contributions. I examine the effects of organizational characteristics, such as fundraising expenditures and alternative sources of revenue, along...

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Media Coverage & Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami

Brown, Philip; Minty, Jessica - 2006

Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to...

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Essays on environmental and public economics

Williams, Roberton C. (contributor); … - 2011

This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...

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Altruism and Egoism: Measurable by Utility Discount Rates?

Bayer, Stefan - 2000

intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die … Altruismus oder Egoismus verwenden läßt. Abschließend werden unsere Überlegungen auf den Klimaschutzfall angewendet …

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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008

Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...

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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2010

One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...

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Microanalyses of Voting, Regulation and Higher Education

Meya, Johannes - 2015

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