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best way to encourage participation. In a field experiment we vary suggested amounts and test different wordings for 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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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 …
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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 devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous …
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We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …
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To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
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We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a … second individual test after the conclusion of the experiment. …
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To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315959
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176747