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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
. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non …-pay auction and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the … anomaly. First, participation in the all-pay auction is substantially lower than in the other mechanisms while the average …
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Bidding to give in the field
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.H.C.; Soetevent, … - In: Journal of Public Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 72-85
approached about 4500 households, each participating in an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary contribution … mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households in the all-pay auction and the lottery competed for a … prize. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory, it did not …
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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 Institute - 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 … contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003388
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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762357
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908263
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955340
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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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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
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Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), … - 2014
We develop and model a two-stage incentivized intervention to promote pro-sociality. In the first stage, participants are incentivized to complete a compound task consisting of a targeted pro-social activity and a complement activity. In the second stage, participants are incentivized to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266051