central america | Behavior ec. Parks & Wildlife Policy design

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

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.


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  • central america

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  • Peer reviewed

Reference

Alpizar, F. and P. Martinsson (2011). Paying the price of sweetening your donation- Evidence from a natural field experiment. Economics Letters 114 (2012) 182–185.

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