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Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering
Xiao, Erte - 2018
with the second-stage task. We refer to this as a “failsafe” mechanism. We design and implement a field experiment to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938119
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Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering
Xiao, Erte - 2018
with the second-stage task. We refer to this as a “failsafe” mechanism. We design and implement a field experiment to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938143
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502690
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Small cash rewards for big losers : experimental insights into the fight against the obesity epidemic
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2014
. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds effects of weight loss rewards up to 18 months after they were removed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461941
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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients : lessons from a randomised field experiment
Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part or all of their benefits if earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash-cliffs"). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for the low number of beneficiaries who expand work and reduce benefit receipt. We analyse a conditional cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416730
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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients : lessons from a randomised field experiment
Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - 2014
Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash-cliffs"). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for low DI outflow. We analyse a conditional cash program that incentivises work related reductions of disability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457820
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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients : lessons from a randomized field experiment ; [conference paper]
Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - 2014 - This draft: 1/15/2014, Preliminary draft
Disabled insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose benefits if labor incomes exceed certain thresholds (so called cash-cliffs ). The high implicit taxation of employment income is considered one of the prime reasons for the low outflow from the disability insurance. This paper presents the results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487278
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Ride Your Luck! A Field Experiment on Lottery-Based Incentives for Compliance
Fabbri, Marco - 2016
We designed a natural-field experiment in the context of local public transportation to test whether rewards in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978000
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Habit formation and rational addiction : a field experiment in handwashing
Hussam, Reshmaan; Rabbani, Atonu; Reggiani, Giovanni; … - 2017
increase for all households with dispensers. Monitoring and incentives raise handwashing contemporaneously, and effects persist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901842