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We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
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include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research …
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We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers performance is about 11% higher for the...
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It is common for charitable organizations to allow donors to place material restrictions on their gifts. Nonprofits and … fundraisers generally believe that allowing gift restrictions will increase donation revenue. Restricted gifts are costly to the … nonprofit because of increased management expenses and an inability to reallocate gifts to higher valued uses. We report the …
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We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074832
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts …" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how … gift exchange should be organized if the principal's goal is to increase the performance of a reciprocal agent …
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that option. This result implies that restricted gifts are both an important tool for increasing donations and may be less …
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We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060210
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts …" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how … gift exchange should be organized if the principal's goal is to increase the performance of a reciprocal agent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
to gift taxation, we estimate Frisch elasticities of gifts to the net-of-tax rate between 9, for those giving around €27 …
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