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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

inform fundraising choices. …

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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...

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The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …

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The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Beekman, Gonne; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...

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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Meier, Stephan; Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper experimentally examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and wellregarded by others - as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...

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Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The enforcement of social norms often requires that unaffected third parties sanction offenders. Given the renewed interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we report on the results of an experiment designed to...

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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are "types" of...

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