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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

In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …

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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2021

price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated …

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Affirmative action and human capital investment : theory and evidence from a randomized field experiment

Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; Price, Joseph - 2015 - Current version: September 2015

field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students …

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Premium auctions in the field

Onderstal, Sander - 2017

In a field experiment, we study the revenue-generating properties of premium auctions. In a premium auction, the runner … experiment, we compare two types of premium auctions with the standard Vickrey auction selling high-quality, limited …

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A Test of the Revenue Equivalence Theorem Using Field Experiments on Ebay

Hossain, Tanjim; Morgan, John - 2005

We conducted 80 auctions on eBay. Forty of these auctions were for various popular music CDs while the remaining 40 auctions were for video games for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console. The revenue equivalence theorem states that any auction form having the same effective reserve price yields the...

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