Giving and promising gifts: experimental evidence on reciprocity from the field
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Keywords
gift exchange; reciprocity; health care; field experiment; Tanzania;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2014-07-21 (Africa)
- NEP-CBE-2014-07-21 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2014-07-21 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2014-07-21 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2014-07-21 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-SOC-2014-07-21 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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