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Consistent or balanced? : on the dynamics of voluntary contributions

Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - 2015 - Version February 2015

We investigate the dynamic effects of a charitable lottery and an income tax on donations. The analysis is based on a … only. The immediate effect of a charitable lottery leads to higher contributions and we cannot find substantial crowding … out of voluntary contributions in the presence of an income tax. These economic interventions weakly spill-over to the …

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Committing the English and the continental way : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Schmelzer, André - 2017

On the doctrinal surface, there is a deep divide between common and continental law when it comes to the origin of contractual obligations. Under continental law, in principle a unilateral promise suffices. Common law by contrast requires consideration. When it comes to deciding cases, the...

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Committing the English and the continental way: An experiment

Engel, Christoph; Schmelzer, André - 2017

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Consistent or balanced? : on the dynamics of voluntary contributions

Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - 2014

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Cooperation, Decision Time, and Culture : Online Experiments with American and Indian Participants

Nishi, Akihiro - 2017

Two separate bodies of work have examined whether culture affects cooperation in economic games and whether cooperative or non-cooperative decisions occur more quickly. Here, we connect this work by exploring the relationship between decision time and cooperation in American versus Indian...

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Estimation of the house money effect using hurdle models

Engel, Christoph; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012

Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is … is potentially important in the external validity debate. -- Public Good Experiment ; Hurdle Model ; double hurdle model …

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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 personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Repeated pro-social behavior in the presence of economic interventions

Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 69 (2017), pp. 18-28

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On peer effects : contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion

Dimant, Eugen - 2017 - This Version: April 2017

Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...

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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

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