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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009

impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …

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A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2011

Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...

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Hidden Benefits of Reward: A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives

Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - CESifo - 2013

We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay...

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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal

Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - CESifo - 2014

Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...

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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - CESifo - 2014

We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...

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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - CESifo - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2009

This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...

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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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