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' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much to pay) in a natural experiment at an online music store with PWYW … public goods contexts, to a consumption environment. We find that revealing the name of the customer led to slightly higher …%. The experiment suggests that even low levels of social pressure without face to face interaction on customers leads to a …
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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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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 …
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this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an … artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous … members about an unrelated topic prior to learning about the public good game. It turns out that this condition already leads …
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artifactual online experiment, subjects located in a European Union member state took a dichotomous choice between a cash prize …
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In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this … donation for those who contribute is only slightly higher. We explore various explanations for this lower participation and …
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study whether the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of … other-regarding preferences, but display similar contribution patterns in an anonymous Public Good Game. Students, instead …, are more selfish and contribute less than temporary and permanent workers. …
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Evidence from public good game experiments holds the promise of instructive and cost-effective insights to inform … contributions are used to directly reduce CO2 emissions and a public good game. Through two treatment variations, we explore two … between the tasks and the role of the subject pool, students and non-students. Our findings suggest that cooperation in public …
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment with 2,440 subjects in which we exogenously vary the price of contributing to … the closest empirical counterpart of an infinitely large public good, climate change mitigation. We find that the price … education, situational variables such as meteorological conditions around the time of the experiment, and attitudinal variables …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email … correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to more than 19,000 local public service providers. We find that emails are less …
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