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Will there be blood? Incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009

We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic...

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Implicit Attitudes and U.S. Tax Professionals’ Reliance on Offshore Tax Professionals’ Recommendations

Spilker, Brian C. - 2020

Large accounting firms offshore a significant amount of tax work to professionals in India. Prior research suggests that individuals can have negative implicit attitudes toward people from different nationalities and that negative implicit attitudes can have undesired consequences. In this...

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were...

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Cooperation preferences in the provision of public goods : an experimental study on the effects of social identity

Lankau, Matthias; Bicskei, Marianna; Bizer, Kilian - 2012

. While there is conflicting experimental evidence on the temporal stability of cooperation preferences in public goods … literature by testing whether social identity impacts on cooperation preferences in public goods provision. Specifically, our … random, in and out group matching protocols. Our findings indicate that cooperation preferences are not stable across these …

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When rules really make a difference : the effect of cooperation rules and self-sacrificing leadership on moral norms in social dilemmas

Mulder, Laetitia; Nelissen, Rob M. A. - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 95 (2010), pp. 57-72

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Why consumers pay voluntarily: Evidence from online music

Regner, Tobias - 2010

Customers at the online music label Magnatune can pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). Magnatune recommends to pay $8, and on average customers paid $8.20 (Regner and Barria, 2009). We ran an online survey and collected responses from 227...

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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems

Aspalter, Christian - 2012

This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...

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Adaptation, Legal Resiliency, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Flatt, Victor Byers; Tarr, Jeremy - 2012

There are existing legal systems that embody planned resiliency. One of these is the “multiple-use” paradigm, which instructs resource managers to manage resources to maximize their multiple uses. Despite this built-in resiliency, the agencies charged with such management have not been able...

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Patent Reform in the United States : Lessons Learned

Burk, Dan L. - 2013

In previous work with Mark Lemley I have discussed the critical role played by the courts in fitting patent law to the ongoing needs of innovation. Careful scrutiny of the recently enacted America Invents Act (AIA), which legislatively reforms American patent law, underscores the need for robust...

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