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We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...
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This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...
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to a drive but are ineligible to donate when incentives are offered. Further evidence from a small-scale field experiment …
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destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 …
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A distinctive feature of humans compared to other species is the high rate of cooperation with non-kin. One explanation is that humans are motivated by concerns for social esteem. In this paper we experimentally investigate the impact of anticipated verbal feedback on altruistic behavior. We...
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Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where doing so would … experiment does not provide a reliable test for such an aversion, and that the evidence does not support the authors' conclusion …
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hypothesis is tested in a large-scale field experiment on blood donation. We find that this "active-decision" intervention …
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This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro …-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …
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Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with medals when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations...
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third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two … intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental …
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