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interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the "hidden costs" of conditional incentives … to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …
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interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the “hidden costs” of certain incentives, such …-occurring environment in a series of temporally-linked field experiments to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and to …
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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
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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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There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
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We conducted a field experiment in the natural setting of blood donations to test how oxytocin relates to empathy and … altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …
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