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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267545
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The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931725
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 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 players...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267571
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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self image …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269689
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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
inform fundraising choices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513228
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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
hypothesized and examined in theory and experiments, the literature is largely silent on the comparison. I report the results of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653464
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214026
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319510
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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. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329003
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Removing financial barriers to organ and bone marrow donation: The effect of leave and tax legislation in the US
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287708