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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, … - 2011

approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory … than in the anonymous VCM. Among the non-anonymous mechanisms, the lottery raises the largest revenue per household …

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Forecasting economic decisions under risk: The predictive importance of choice-process data

Mueller, Steffen Q.; Ring, Patrick; Schmidt, Maria - 2019

can choose to either accept or reject a displayed lottery. From this data, we use information on 8800 individual lottery … gambles and specify four predictor-sets that include different combinations of input categories: lottery design, socioeconomic … three seconds of lottery-information processing. The results of our forecasting experiment show that choice-process data can …

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Bidding behavior in a symmetric Chinese auction

Benegas, Mauricio - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 1, pp. 93-110

but for a lottery on receive. That lottery is determined endogenously through the bids. This auction is known as chance … is to bid zero and to rely on luck. It showed that bidders become less aggressive when the lottery satisfies a …

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Who Is the Enemy?

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous Source of Variation in Income

Lindahl, Mikael - 2002

that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …

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Do financial bonuses to employees reduce their absenteeism? Outcome of a lottery

Hassink, Wolter H.J.; Koning, Pierre - 2005

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing … firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous three months and not having won the lottery … earlier. It turns out that the lottery results in a decrease in the rate of sick leave of 1.6 percentage point. From the …

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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension

Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - 2010

unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and …

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Conflicts with multiple battlefields

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed 'battlefields'. In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...

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A global lottery and a global premium bond

Addison, Tony; Chowdhury, Abdur R. - 2003

The world lottery market now amounts to at least US$126 billion in sales. World market sales for all gaming products … of a global lottery and a global premium bond (with the successful UK scheme providing a model for the latter). Each has … different strengths: the global lottery can add to the supply of grant finance for development, while the global premium bond …

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Offering prosocial incentives on‐top: Do they sweeten the deal or poison the well?

Beisecker, Sven; Schlereth, Christian - In: Psychology & Marketing 41 (2023) 3, pp. 628-648

participation and ensure accurate responses, companies traditionally offer either self-benefiting incentives, like lottery prizes …

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