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Storm Crowds : Evidence from Zooniverse on Crowd Contribution Design

Barbosu, Sandra - 2017

Crowdsourcing - a collaborative form of content production based on the contributions of large groups of individuals … belonging to a community, and symbolic rewards within crowdsourcing websites. One factor that has received limited attention in … the existing literature is how the design of crowdsourcing platforms affects their sustainability. We study whether the …

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment...

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Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations? : there is little evidence that government spending crowds out private charitable donations of time and money

Bredtmann, Julia - 2016

As migration rates increase across the world, the choice of whether to retire in the host or home country is becoming a key decision for up to 15% of the world’s population, and this proportion is growing rapidly. Large waves of immigrants who re-settled in the second half of the 20th century...

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Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations? : there is little evidence that government spending crowds out private charitable donations of time and money

Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2023

Private charitable contributions play an essential role in most economies. From a policy perspective, there is concern that comprehensive government spending might crowd out private charitable donations. If perfect crowding out occurs, then every dollar spent by the government will lead to a...

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