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Organ donation in the lab : preferences and votes on the priority rule
Herr, Annika; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2015
An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment,...
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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior
Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...
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Is Globalization Really Good for Public Health? General Considerations and Implications for the Arab World
Tausch, Arno - 2015
Background: A positive assessment of the role of globalization as a driver of a good public health performance has been … resulted in increasing inequality, which in turn negatively affects global health performance. This conclusion is valid on a … public health performance differently. The absence of restrictions (direct effects on the availability of pharmaceuticals …
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Loopholes undermine donation : an experiment motivated by an organ donation priority loophole in Israel
Kessler, Judd B.; Roth, Alvin E. - In: Journal of public economics 114 (2014), pp. 19-28
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Organ donation in the lab : preferences and votes on the priority rule
Herr, Annika; Normann, Hans-Theo - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 131 (2016) 2, pp. 139-149
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Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa : Containment Measures as a Public Good
Koehler, Kevin; Schulhofer-Wohl, Jonah - 2021
What determined how governments in the Middle East and North Africa reacted to the global COVID-19 pandemic? We develop a theoretical argument based on the political costs of different policy options and assess its empirical relevance. Distinguishing between the immediate costs associated with...
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Contributing to public goods as individuals versus group representatives : evidence of gender differences
Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Røgeberg, Ole - 2014 - This version July 2014
We report evidence from a laboratory experiment comparing contributions in public good games played as individuals to contributions made as group representatives. We find that women alter their behaviour more than men. The change is in an out-group friendly direction: while men's contributions...
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Consistent or balanced? : on the dynamics of voluntary contributions
Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - 2014
We investigate the dynamic effects of a charitable lottery and an income tax on donations. The analysis is based on a two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity of choice as recipient and additional incentives in the first round only. The immediate effect of a charitable lottery leads...
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Gender effects and third-party punishment in social dilemma games
Di Cagno, Daniela; Drouvelis, Michalis; Paiardini, Paola - 2017
This paper investigates whether altruistic punishment when cooperation norms are violated is sensitive to gender effects. Our framework is a one-shot social dilemma game with third-party punishment in which subjects are informed of the others' gender within their group. This allows us to test...
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Delegation and coordination with multiple threshold public goods : experimental evidence
Corazzini, Luca; Cotton, Christopher; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2019 - Current version: February 2, 2019
When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk miscoordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution of funding across projects. Community chests and other intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among...
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