Can Tailored Communications Motivate Volunteers? A Field Experiment
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- Al-Ubaydli, Omar & Lee, Min, 2011. "Can tailored communications motivate volunteers? A field experiment," MPRA Paper 30343, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Keywords
volunteering; charitable contributions; priming; stereotype;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2011-05-24 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2011-05-24 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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