-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

receive restricted access (a lower share). In a laboratory experiment Rank-Order-VCM elicits median contributions equal to the …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …

information on how to improve existing fundraising strategies …

Using a between-subjects design, this experiment compared the effect of competitive and cooperative work in the lab on …

-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

Economists typically locate the origins of the theory of externalities in A.C. Pigou's The Economics of Welfare (1920 … conceptions of externalities, framed by changing ideas about what economic theory is attempting to achieve …, Pigou's effort gave rise to an unbroken Pigovian tradition in externality theory that continues to exert a substantial …

cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the … themselves by distance; fundraising (through matching) for one charity raises checkbook giving to that charity, irrespective of …