It’s me again… Ask Avoidance and the Dynamics of Charitable Giving
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Keywords
Charitable giving; Repeated request; Ask avoidance; Experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2021-10-18 (Experimental Economics)
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