Natalie Struwe,Esther Blanco,James M Walker
Natalie Struwe
We present experimental evidence for decision settings where public good providers compete for endogenous rewards which are donations (transfers) offered by outside donors. Donors receive benefits from public good provision but cannot provi...
Voluntary 'donations' versus reward-oriented 'contributions': two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms [0.03%]
关于融资机制中的框架效果的两个实验:自愿“捐赠”与以回报为导向的“贡献”
Maja Adena,Steffen Huck
Maja Adena
In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word 'donation' generated higher revenue than the use o...
Eva Ranehill,Roberto A Weber
Eva Ranehill
There is substantial evidence that women tend to support different policies and political candidates than men. Many studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition a...
Vanessa Valero
Vanessa Valero
Previous literature demonstrates that beliefs about the determinants of income inequality play a major role in individual support for income redistribution. This study investigates how people form beliefs regarding the extent to which work ...
COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage? [0.03%]
新冠疫情与 prosociality:捐赠者是如何回应当地疫情严重程度、关注程度的提升和媒体报道的增多的?
Maja Adena,Julian Harke
Maja Adena
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable appeals were updated to include a reference to COVID-19. Did donors increase their giving in response to such changes? In o...
Revealing good deeds: disclosure of social responsibility in competitive markets [0.03%]
善行的昭示:竞争市场中的社会责任信息披露
Sören Harrs,Bettina Rockenbach,Lukas M Wenner
Sören Harrs
We experimentally study competitive markets with socially responsible production. Our main focus is on the producers' decision whether or not to reveal the degree of social responsibility of their product. Compared to two benchmark cases wh...
Glenn W Harrison,Andre Hofmeyr,Harold Kincaid et al.
Glenn W Harrison et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a remarkable opportunity to put to work all of the research that has been undertaken in past decades on the elicitation and structural estimation of subjective belief distributions as well as preferences over ...
The risk elicitation puzzle revisited: Across-methods (in)consistency? [0.03%]
风险唤起的难题再思考:不同方法下的(不)一致性?
Felix Holzmeister,Matthias Stefan
Felix Holzmeister
With the rise of experimental research in the social sciences, numerous methods to elicit and classify people's risk attitudes in the laboratory have evolved. However, evidence suggests that attitudes towards risk may vary considerably when...
Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh,Luba Petersen
Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh
Central banks are increasingly communicating their economic outlook in an effort to manage the public and financial market participants' expectations. We provide original causal evidence that the information communicated and the assumptions...
David Ettinger,Philippe Jehiel
David Ettinger
An experiment is designed to shed light on how deception works. The experiment involves a twenty period sender/receiver game in which period 5 has more weight than other periods. In each period, the informed sender communicates about the re...