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possibility that subjects' behavior changes when the initial endowment is earned instead of being randomly assigned is considered. …
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regions involved in the partnership (economic and scientific endowment of regions and proximities that separate them). Based …
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We design an experiment to test if the manner in which subjects receive the endowment has any bearing on the amount of … overbidding in contests. We find that overbidding is significantly higher when subjects are given a large per-experiment endowment … rather than when the endowment is given per-period. Risk-aversion and non-monetary utility of winning play important roles in …
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We investigate experimentally whether the endowment of potential contributors changes the success rate of providing … threshold public goods. We find a U shaped relationship in which the success rate is relatively high when the endowment is … ‘intermediate’ size. By this we mean that the endowment is small enough that people do need to contribute relatively a lot to fund …
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by endowment may provide new ways of involving groups of immigrant background. I limit the discussion to questions tied …
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This Chapter summarizes the overall facts about charitable giving. Charitable giving has remained an active and important area within Public Economics. Then also discusses about the four main approaches one could take to research on charitable giving. The first approach is to look at giving as a...
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I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of … children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on …
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