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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to … inform fundraising choices. …
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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
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We conducted a field experiment in the natural setting of blood donations to test how oxytocin relates to empathy and … altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …
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We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
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