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tourism destinations. Methodology – We conduct a series of experiments with tourists visiting the Island of Majorca, Spain … treatment of our experiment, tourists have the opportunity to make a voluntary donation to a local environmental organization …
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Purpose – The chapter reports a laboratory emissions trading experiment with imperfect enforcement that introduces ….” As experimenters employ more “framed field experiments” outside the lab, it may be important to evaluate such pure … framing effects in the lab if a main research goal is to compare lab and field experiment outcomes. Originality …
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experimental economists (Dictator, Trust, and Public Goods). In these experiments, individuals were paired or grouped with unknown …
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Burkina Faso is a land-locked country, sharing a border with six other countries, namely Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Cote D'Ivoire in the zone of West Africa ( Fig. 1 ). Due to the geographical location of the Sahel region, the country's climate is characterized by rainy and dry...
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Stories of disasters in Africa conjure up images of the helpless hordes, in peril and in need of outside assistance. Most of the major disasters in Africa since the 1970s have a significant food crisis and famine component. These could be linked to failed states and complex emergencies such as...
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According to the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) (2008) , Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country to natural hazards and disasters due to its geography, high population density, and poverty. The country is exposed to a variety of recurring natural hazards such as floods, cyclones,...
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This study surveyed 309 business students (180 men and 129 women) enrolled in introductory accounting and business law classes on various aspects of honesty in academics. The study was motivated by the need to examine the underlying issues associated with students’ perceptions of cheating and...
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This paper examines binding multi-round commitments (MRCs) to the group account in a repeated voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) game. Before each five-round interval, subjects in a four-person group are given the option to commit a portion of their endowments to the group account for each...
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experiments contradict these straightforward predictions of standard economic theory: subjects consistently make decisions that …
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from a field experiment involving contribution to a public radio station. Some callers are told of the contributions … decisions of others, and other callers are given no such information. We find that providing ambitions (high) social comparison … information can significantly increase contributions. …
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