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Some Causes are More Equal than Others? Behavioral Spillovers in Charitable Giving
Ek, Claes - 2015
productivity of the charities varied. We hypothesize, first, that an increase in the productivity of one charity will `crowd out …' contributions to the other charity. Second, we introduce several treatments to test whether crowding occurs even across (possibly … more dissimilar are the charity alternatives. In our most dissimilar treatment, it is only half as large as when …
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On probation: an experimental analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266976
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567631
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Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation
Dannenberg, Astrid; Riechmann, Thomas; Sturm, Bodo; … - 2007
We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297914
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Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation
Sturm, Bodo; Riechmann, Thomas; Dannenberg, Astrid; … - 2007
We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297936
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Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation
Dannenberg, Astrid; Sturm, Bodo; Vogt, Carsten - 2007
This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy. The experiment, which was run via the Internet, consisted of two simple non-strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297962
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Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation
Dannenberg, Astrid; Riechmann, Thomas; Sturm, Bodo; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097659
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Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation
Sturm, Bodo; Riechmann, Thomas; Dannenberg, Astrid; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097697
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Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation
Dannenberg, Astrid; Sturm, Bodo; Vogt, Carsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy. The experiment, which was run via the Internet, consisted of two simple non-strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098204
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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods
Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278642