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Incentives for cooperation in teams: sociality meets decision rights
Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Consistent or balanced? : on the dynamics of voluntary contributions
Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - 2015 - Version February 2015
We investigate the dynamic effects of a charitable lottery and an income tax on donations. The analysis is based on a two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity of choice as recipient and additional incentives in the first round only. The immediate effect of a charitable lottery leads...
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Charity as a signal of trustworthhiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...
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Charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness : disentangling the signaling benefits of altruistic acts
Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2013
It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection models. It has also been shown that cooperation can evolve as a costly signal of an unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009695978
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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136037
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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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Do beliefs about peers matter for donation matching? : experiments in the field and laboratory
Gee, Laura K.; Schreck, Michael J. - 2017
about peers' donations affect one's own likelihood of donation. We test our theory using novel "threshold match" treatments … in field and laboratory experiments. These treatments form small groups and offer a flat matching bonus if a threshold … number of donations is received. One "threshold match" treatment more than doubles the donation rate in the field relative to …
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Matching schemes and public goods : a review
Epperson, Raphael; Reif, Christiane - 2018 - This version: January 12, 2018
Matching schemes, where a party matches the contribution of others, reduce the effective price of a good and aim to foster its demand. We review the empirical literature on the effectiveness of these schemes in the context of public goods, especially in the field of charitable giving. As...
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Matching schemes and public goods : a review
Epperson, Raphael; Reif, Christiane - 2017
Matching schemes, where a party matches the contribution of others, reduce the effective price of a good and aim to foster its demand. We review the empirical literature on the effectiveness of these schemes in the context of public goods, especially in the field of charitable giving. As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764987
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Chapter 18 Philanthropy
Andreoni, James - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1201-1269). 2006
Philanthropy is one of the enduring areas of economic research. Why would people work hard only to give their earnings away? The paper explores the theoretical foundations, as well as the empirical and policy research on philanthropy. This paper reviews over 25 years worth of economic research,...
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