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Dimensions of Altruism : Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?
Johnson, Samuel - 2018
donations of time (Study 4) and when high-cost but ineffective acts are pitted directly against low-cost but effective acts in …
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Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations? : there is little evidence that government spending crowds out private charitable donations of time and money
Bredtmann, Julia - 2016
As migration rates increase across the world, the choice of whether to retire in the host or home country is becoming a key decision for up to 15% of the world’s population, and this proportion is growing rapidly. Large waves of immigrants who re-settled in the second half of the 20th century...
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Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations? : there is little evidence that government spending crowds out private charitable donations of time and money
Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2023
Private charitable contributions play an essential role in most economies. From a policy perspective, there is concern that comprehensive government spending might crowd out private charitable donations. If perfect crowding out occurs, then every dollar spent by the government will lead to a...
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Endogenous timing and income inequality in the voluntary provision of public goods : theory and experiment
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue; Kurosaka, Kengo - In: The Canadian journal of economics : the journal of the … 56 (2023) 4, pp. 1347-1376
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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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The impact of taxes and wasteful government spending on giving
Sheremeta, Roman M.; Uler, Neslihan - 2020
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Let me, or let George? : motives of competing altruists
Bergstrom, Theodore C.; Garratt, Rod; Leo, Greg - In: Games and economic behavior 118 (2019), pp. 269-283
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Guilt and participation
Patel, Amrish; Smith, Alec - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 167 (2019), pp. 279-295
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