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Testing enforcement strategies in the field: legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
. -- Field experiments ; law enforcement ; compliance ; deterrence …We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877154
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Deterrence through word of mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - 2009
the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees … in their vicinity, with compliance rising significantly among those who had no interaction with inspectors. As we can …
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Giving once, giving twice : a two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018
We study intertemporal crowding between two fundraising campaigns for the same charitable organization by manipulating donors' beliefs about the likelihood of future campaigns in two subsequent field experiments. The data shows that initial giving is decreasing in the likelihood of a future...
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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019
Some companies engage in mass fundraising - where thousands of recipients are asked to make small donations - in addition to their core business. Via a corpo-rate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, recent research uncovered significant "ask avoidance" which, if...
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Charitable giving by the poor : a field experiment on matching and distance to charitable output in Kyrgyzstan
Adena, Maja; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Huck, Steffen - 2019
Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle or higher income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor. Despite this focus, the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field...
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nation-wide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2020
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? We implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly assigning all of the country's 8,000 zip codes to Save the Children Facebook fundraising videos or a pure control and studied changes in the volume of donations to this and...
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Charitable giving by the poor : a field experiment in Kyrgyzstan
Adena, Maja; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Huck, Steffen - 2020 - Revised May 2020
Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle- or high-income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor, although the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field experiment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213476
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Personalized fundraising : a field experiment on threshold matching of donations
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2020 - Revised February 2020
We study a form of threshold matching where donations above a certain threshold are topped up with a fixed amount. We show theoretically that threshold matching can induce crowding in if appropriately personalized. In a field experiment, we explore how thresholds should be chosen depending on...
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Personalized fundraising : a field experiment on threshold matching of donations
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019
While increasing the number of small donors, standard linear matching schemes have been shown to cause considerable crowding out in charitable giving with pronounced effects on large gifts. We propose a form of threshold matching where donations above a certain, potentially personalized,...
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