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Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others' contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show...
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Voluntary and compulsory public statements of good conduct are frequently observed in the real world, such as the codes of good conduct for professionals or the requirements of academic journals to affirm that research was carried out ethically. In this study, we investigate what effect public...
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Women are often perceived as more compliant than men; however, the literature provides inconclusive evidence. Using a novel experimental design comprising two complementary experiments, we test this claim in online samples representative of the German adult population. The first experiment...
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Consistent with nonprofit fundraising practices, donation visibility has been shown to increase giving. While concern … donation-visibility may be harmful when individuals prefer to be perceived as poor-and-generous rather than rich …, donation-visibility fails to increase contributions as low-income individuals select low donation amounts that are unlikely to …
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donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … altruism increases the efficiency of donation choices, substitutability of donations between money and time and crowding out …
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(implemented as donations to a charity) lead to the typical pattern of moral licensing: the presence of a first donation lowers the … second donation. However, we find that this decrease merely represents a form of substitution between different opportunities … first donation, but on average individuals respond with positive donations to each additional ask, meaning that asking more …
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by blood banks, by investigating the effects of information provision on the efficiency of blood donation. We augment a … standard linear public goods game, incorporating the following features of blood donation: multiplicity of public goods (to … blood demand (full information) would improve the efficiency of blood donation when compared to the provision of …
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Experiments involving multiple public goods with contribution thresholds capture many features of charitable giving environments in which donors try to coordinate their contributions across various potential recipients. We present results from a laboratory experiment that introduces endowment...
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Experiments involving multiple public goods with contribution thresholds capture many features of charitable giving environments in which donors try to coordinate their contributions across various potential recipients. We present results from a laboratory experiment that introduces endowment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013483606
Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many settings. We combine standard altruism and warm glow choice experiments with a battery of candidate...
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