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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
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Physician behavior under prospective payment schemes : evidence from artefactual field and lab experiments
Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; Seebauer, Michael - 2017
Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their own pro t as well as patient bene t. In this paper, we extend the experimental analysis of the physician decision problem by adding a third party representing the health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741401
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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption
Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019
these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902058
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Direct Tests of Individual Preferences for Efficiency and Equity
Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca - 2011
Departures from "economic man" behavior in many games in which fairness is a salient characteristic are now well documented in the experimental economics literature. These data have inspired development of models of social preferences that assume agents have preferences for equity and efficiency...
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Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - 2001
Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of ?social preferences?. We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing...
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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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Bayesian panel quantile regression for binary outcomes with correlated random effects : an application on crime recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges; Lacroix, Guy; Rahman, Mohammad Arshad - 2020
shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …
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Socioeconomic determinants of the changes in homicides over time : a VAR analysis
Caraballo-Cueto, Jose - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 8 (2015) 2, pp. 119-132
intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …
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Is There a Correlation between Religion and Wife Beating? An Empirical Study of 11 Countries
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Wife beating, spousal abuse, domestic violence, or whatever else you want to call it, has been around for centuries, probably since the beginning of human existence. There are several reasons why this kind of behavior exists, but the present paper will not get into those reasons. For more on...
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