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Testing enforcement strategies in the field: legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
. -- Field experiments ; law enforcement ; compliance ; deterrence …We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877154
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Deterrence through word of mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - 2009
the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees … in their vicinity, with compliance rising significantly among those who had no interaction with inspectors. As we can …
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Nudging taxpayer registration? : field experimental evidence on backfiring incentives
Eguino, Huáscar; Roman, Soraya; Schächtele, Simeon - 2020
, norm compliance and the usefulness of the online registry were less important reasons to register. In sum, the results …
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Conditional cash transfers, debit cards and financial inclusion : experimental evidence from Argentina
Cruces, Guillermo - 2022
Cash transfer and other social protection programs in developing countries have often been accompanied by measures to foster financial inclusion, such as the adoption and use of bank accounts and electronic means of payments. Argentina's social benefits are paid in bank accounts and accessed...
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Giving once, giving twice : a two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018
We study intertemporal crowding between two fundraising campaigns for the same charitable organization by manipulating donors' beliefs about the likelihood of future campaigns in two subsequent field experiments. The data shows that initial giving is decreasing in the likelihood of a future...
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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019
Some companies engage in mass fundraising - where thousands of recipients are asked to make small donations - in addition to their core business. Via a corpo-rate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, recent research uncovered significant "ask avoidance" which, if...
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Charitable giving by the poor : a field experiment on matching and distance to charitable output in Kyrgyzstan
Adena, Maja; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Huck, Steffen - 2019
Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle or higher income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor. Despite this focus, the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field...
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nation-wide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2020
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? We implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly assigning all of the country's 8,000 zip codes to Save the Children Facebook fundraising videos or a pure control and studied changes in the volume of donations to this and...
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Charitable giving by the poor : a field experiment in Kyrgyzstan
Adena, Maja; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Huck, Steffen - 2020 - Revised May 2020
Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle- or high-income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor, although the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field experiment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213476