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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
employ an experimental design that first measures the level of effort exerted by student workers on a data entry task in an … environment that elicits purely selfish behavior and we compare it to effort exerted in an environment that also induces action …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872816
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009
employ an experimental design that first measures the level of effort exerted by student workers on a data entry task in an … environment that elicits purely selfish behavior and we compare it to effort exerted in an environment that also induces action …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013946
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - The Field Experiments Website - 2009
employ an experimental design that first measures the level of effort exerted by student workers on a data entry task in an … environment that elicits purely selfish behavior and we compare it to effort exerted in an environment that also induces action …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580398
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace : A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021
employ an experimental design that first measures the level of effort exerted by student workers on a data entry task in an … environment that elicits purely selfish behavior and we compare it to effort exerted in an environment that also induces action …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316327
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Blood donations and incentives : evidence from a field experiment
Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
There is a longstanding concern that material rewards might undermine pro-social motivations, thereby leading to a decrease in blood donations. This paper provides an empirical test of how material rewards affect blood donations in a three-month large-scale field experiment and a fifteen-month...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134026
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The magic of the personal touch : field experimental evidence on money appreciation as gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne - 2016
This paper makes use of two field experiments to explore individual effort responses to gifts. We extend the literature … elements in gift giving and has important implications for how to effectively elicit worker effort. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487722
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Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation
Stutzer, Alois; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Michael - 2006
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the formation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390603
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Active decisions and pro-social behavior : a field experiment on blood donation
Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Goette, Lorenz (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the formation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003410495
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Oxytocin, empathy, altruism and charitable giving : experimental evidence from blood donations
Jukić, Irena; Kovač, Dejan; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
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 induce different levels of empathy by showing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025781
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Viral Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment of Social Contagion in On-Line Networks
Lacetera, Nicola - 2014
We present preliminary results from a small-scale natural field experiment aimed at exploring online social contagion, with an application to charitable giving. We worked in partnership with Heifer International, a non-profit organization aimed at fighting poverty in developing countries, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065215