Paying the price of sweetening your donation: Evidence from a natural field experiment

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2012
Volume: 114
Issue: 2
Pages: 182-185

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We add a gift in appreciation of the subject’s contribution to a social reference treatment successfully proven to trigger higher donations, and find that the share of people contributing decreases significantly, thereby eroding the original treatment’s capacity to increase donations.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:114:y:2012:i:2:p:182-185
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-24