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Zum zeitlichen Umfang ehrenamtlichen Engagements in Sportvereinen : sozioökonomische Modellbildung und empirische Prüfung
Flatau, Jens; Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2012
Umfang ehrenamtlichen Engagements haben. -- Ehrenamt ; Motive ; Fußballvereine ; Onlinebefragung …Auf der Basis eines mittels einer Onlinebefragung erhobenen Datensatzes wird auf der Basis der haushalts- bzw … Fußballvereinen geleisteten Arbeit von der Art der zugrundeliegenden Motive abhängig ist. Dabei wird auch auf Motiv …
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Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering
Xiao, Erte - 2018
Building on theoretical and empirical literatures showing that choices not only reflect but also create preferences, we develop a two-stage incentivized intervention to promote pro-sociality. In the first stage, participants are incentivized to complete a compound task consisting of a targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938119
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Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering
Xiao, Erte - 2018
Building on theoretical and empirical literatures showing that choices not only reflect but also create preferences, we develop a two-stage incentivized intervention to promote pro-sociality. In the first stage, participants are incentivized to complete a compound task consisting of a targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938143
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Rewarding Volunteers : A Field Experiment - Online Appendix
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2013
This is an online appendix to Lacetera, N., Macis, M., and Slonim, R., 2013: “Rewarding Volunteers? A Field Experiment“ (Management Science, forthcoming). It contains the following materials: (1) Additional Details of the Experimental Design (pp. i-iii), and (2) Additional Analyses (pp....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038436
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Education and prosocial behavior : evidence from time use survey
Akar, Betul; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019
We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours is the first paper that investigates the causal effect...
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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? : evidence from Germany
Krekel, Christian - 2017
We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative...
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Volunteering to take on power : experimental evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies in India
Banerjee, Debosree; Ibanez, Marcela; Riener, Gerhard; … - 2015
Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can also support long term economic growth. Yet in most societies, coercive power is in the hands of men. We investigate whether this form of segregation is due to inherent gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390561
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Charitable behaviour and the big five personality traits : evidence from UK panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2015
This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317623
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Time is Money : A Natural Field Experiment on How a Non-Monetary Timely Feedback System Motivates Volunteers
Li, Xiaoye - 2013
A natural field experiment is designed to explore the crowding effects of a timely feedback system on voluntary contributions according to their original dominant motivation (intrinsic/extrinsic). This paper finds crowding-in effect of a one-way timely feedback for both types of volunteers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091220
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Charitable Behaviour and the Big Five Personality Traits : Evidence from UK Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015950