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Volunteering and Life or Financial Shocks: Does Income and Wealth Matter?
Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
) that tracks the same individuals over time to assess how individuals from different income and wealth groups respond to … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life …—we observe more heterogeneity than expected and also stickiness at the lowest income levels. Response delays in post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162074
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Loving Cultural Heritage Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior
Signorello, Giovanni; Bertacchini, Enrico; Santagata, Walter - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individuals’ willingness to donate to museums and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489609
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The Effect of Fair Trade Affiliation on Child Schooling: Evidence from a Sample of Chilean Honey Producers
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Michetti, Melania - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
on child schooling since it generates a short run pure income effect together with a medium run productivity effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584501
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Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828390
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904903
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The Transmission of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative
Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833911
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Contagious Cooperation, Temptation, and Ecosystem Collapse
Richter, Andries; Soest, Daan van; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Real world observations suggest that social norms of cooperation can be effective in overcoming social dilemmas such as the joint management of a common pool resource – but also that they can be subject to slow erosion and sudden collapse. We show that these patterns of erosion and collapse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833933
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Tirole, Jean; Bénabou, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540413
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Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation
Torgler, Benno; Valiñas, María A. García; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423208
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Justifiability of Littering: An Empirical Investigation
Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
The paper investigates the relationship between environmental participation and littering. Previous empirical work in the area of littering is scarce as is evidence regarding the determinants of littering behavior. We address these deficiencies, demonstrating a strong empirical link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423213