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Acquiring new donors : a field experiment using bonus trigger incentives

Helms McCarty, Sara; Diette, Timothy M.; Holloway, … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 45 (2016) 2, pp. 261-274

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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016

We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...

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Why don't we sleep enough? : a field experiment among college students

Avery, Mallory; Giuntella, Osea; Jiao, Peiran - 2019

investigates the mechanisms affecting sleep choice and explores whether commitment devices and monetary incentives can be used to … incentives to sleep, and collected data from wearable activity trackers, surveys, and time-use diaries. Our results are … the monetary incentives by significantly increasing the likelihood of sleeping between 7 and 9 hours (+19%). We uncover …

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Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...

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Information and rewards : results of a field experiment on printing activity

Cecere, Grazia; Johnstone, Nick; Castaldi, Gionata - In: Journal of environmental economics and policy 7 (2018) 2, pp. 117-129

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A field experiment on the impact of incentives on milk choice in the lunchroom

List, John A.; Samek, Anya Savikhin - In: Public finance review : PFR 45 (2017) 1, pp. 44-67

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

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When incentives backfire : spillover effects in food choice

Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; … - 2015

How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …

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Psychological incentives, financial incentives, and risk attitudes in tournaments : an artefactual field experiment

Cadsby, Charles Bram; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Fang, Tony; … - 2014

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