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Insuring your donation : an experiment
Buijze, Renate; Engel, Christoph; Hemels, Sigrid - 2015
An increasing fraction of donations is channeled through donation intermediaries. These entities serve multiple purposes, one of which seems to be providing donors with greater certainty: that the donation reaches its intended goal, and that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349366
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'I Don't Agree with Giving Cash' : A Survey Experiment Examining Support for Public Assistance
Campbell, Colin - 2015
Existing sociological research on support for anti-poverty programs largely focuses on broad categories of welfare or assistance to the poor rather than particular types of transfers. Using an experimental survey design and mixed methods research, we examine whether support for anti-poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023653
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Social preferences and public economics : mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
Bowles, Samuel (contributor); Hwang, Sung-ha (contributor) - 2008
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003733890
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Social preferences and public economics : mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
Bowles, Samuel (contributor); Hwang, Sung-ha (contributor) - 2007
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003733924
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Evaluating Behaviorally-Motivated Policy : Experimental Evidence from the Lightbulb Market
Allcott, Hunt - 2015
Imperfect information and inattention to energy costs are important potential motivations for energy efficiency standards and subsidies. We evaluate these motivations in the lightbulb market using a theoretical model and two randomized experiments. We derive welfare effects as functions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013477
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Evaluating Behaviorally-Motivated Policy : Experimental Evidence from the Lightbulb Market
Allcott, Hunt - 2015
Imperfect information and inattention to energy costs are important potential motivations for energy efficiency standards and subsidies. We evaluate these motivations in the lightbulb market using a theoretical model and two randomized experiments. We derive welfare effects as functions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018048
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Efficiency-inducing tax credits for charitable donations when taxpayers have heterogeneous behavioral norms
Long, Ngo Van - 2021
We consider an economy in which some taxpayers behave in a Kantian way in their donation behavior while others are Nash players. A Kantian taxpayer holds the norm that any suggested deviation from a proposed equilibrium profile would be adopted by him only if when all members of their community...
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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion
Wedel, Katharina - 2024
Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapter 2 … sheds light on the interaction of two inputs into the education production function: instruction time and teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490033
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Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from a developing country
Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141961
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399683