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Personalized fundraising : a field experiment on threshold matching of donations

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2020 - Revised February 2020

show theoretically that threshold matching can induce crowding in if appropriately personalized. In a field experiment, we …

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023

-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a field experiment (n>1,700 participants), we vary the …

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Personalized fundraising : a field experiment on threshold matching of donations

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2022

experiment, we explore how thresholds should be chosen depending on past donations. The optimal choice of thresholds is rather …

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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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Politicized scientists : credibility cost of political expression on Twitter

Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2025

As social media becomes prominent within academia, we examine its reputational costs for academics. Analyzing Twitter posts from 98,000 scientists (2016-22), we uncover substantial political expression. Online experiments with 4,000 U.S. respondents and 135 journalists, rating synthetic academic...

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Swiftness and delay of punishment

Dušek, Libor; Traxler, Christian - 2024

This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from automated speed cameras, we exploit two (quasi-)experimental sources of variation in the time between a speeding offense and the sending of a ticket. At the launch of the speed...

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Deportations and the roots of gang violence in Central America

Ambrosius, Christian - 2018 - This version: June 17th 2018

this hypothesis from the case of El Salvador. Regarding the dependent variable, the policy experiment of a truce between …-existing levels of violent crime. The cross-sectional evidence is backed by panel data analysis dating back to 1999. The annual inflow …-existing crime at destination, whereas deportations of non-convicts did not have the same effect. These finding are in line with …

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Refugees welcome? : understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-foreigner hate crimes in Germany

Entorf, Horst; Lange, Martin - 2019

In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in … effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share of the foreign-born population on anti-foreigner hate crime. Our … county-level analysis shows that not simply the size of regional asylum seeker infl ows drives the increase in hate crime …

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Socioeconomic structure, self-fulfilment, homicides and spatial dependence in Brazil

Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; Cerqueira, Daniel; … - 2015

In this article we develop a theoretical model to explain the homicide rate in any given place and construct a Bayesian model with a spatial structure to test the hypotheses. We assume that in his quest for self-fulfilment the individual, when taking the decision to perpetrate violence, not only...

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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany : evidence from panel data of the German states

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

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