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We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...
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interpersonal trade-offs. In a longitudinal experiment subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real …
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relations have never been investigated with field data. In a large-scale experiment with 658 adolescents, we relate experimental …
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be overcome by providing low-cost information. I conduct a large-scale field experiment with a public water utility to …
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Korea, Japan and the US. Altruism and intergenerational transfers have been widely studied in economics (Fehr and Schmidt …
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We study a credence goods problem - that is, a moral hazard problem with non-contractible outcome - where altruistic experts (the agents) care both about their income and the utility of consumers (the principals). Experts' preferences over income and their consumers' utility are convex, such...
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This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our empirical evidence suggests that people with stronger...
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