Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica

By F. Alpízar, Fredrik Carlsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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When should the Ask be a Nudge? The Effect of Default Amounts on Charitable Donations (2016, unknown): “, “one of the most common donation amounts has been 5 US dollars” (Alpizar et al. 2008).”
On the Norms of Charitable Giving in Islam: A Field Experiment (2012, background): “Similarly, Alpizar et al. (2008) find that donation incidence is 19% higher in contributions to a national park in Costa Rica.”
Gender-specific starting point bias in choice experiments: Evidence from an empirical study (2008, background): “Similarly, Alpizar et al. [ 5 ] find contributions made in public to be 25% higher than when made in private.”
Brother, can you spare a dime? Peer pressure in charitable solicitation ☆ (2011, background): “Alpizar et al. (2008), who manipulate anonymity and reciprocity in addition to social reference points, find that a high social reference point tends to increase gifts slightly, but a low social reference actually decreases gifts.”
Conformity and the Demand for Environmental Goods (2010, methodology): “contributions (e.g. Alpizar et al., 2008; Frey and Meier, 2004; Shang and Croson, 2006).”
Who gives? A literature review of predictors of charitable giving. Part two: gender, marital status, income, and wealth (2012, background): “…Eckel et al (2005) Human services LG Carman (2006) LG Marx (2000) LG Regnerus et al (1998) € Andreoni et al (2003) € Chang (2005b) € Eckel et al (2005) Nature LG Alpizar et al (2008) LG Landry et al (2006) Religion LG Bekkers and Schyt (2008) € Brown and Ferris (2007) € Chang (2005b) LG Yen…”
Fair Air: Distributive Justice and Environmental Economics (2010, background): “Agents also differ in their motives, which can include, among others, altruism and warm glow (Andreoni 1990), or reciprocity and conformity (Alpizar et al. 2008).”
NORMS MAKE PREFERENCES SOCIAL: Norms Make Preferences Social (2015, background): “…effect.34 34This is also consistent with evidence that individuals tend to conform to the (implicit or explicit) norms established by those whose actions they observe (Frey and Meier, 2004; Bardsley and Sausgruber, 2005; Alpizar, Carlsson, and Johansson-Stenman, 2008; Bicchieri and Xiao, 2008).”
Self-signaling and social-signaling in giving (2015, background): “Of these two possibilities, social-image concern has been more heavily studied and documented (e.g. Andreoni and Petrie, 2004; Soetevent, 2005; Alpizar et al., 2008), yet the fact that the social-signaling evidence presented here (and much of the previously cited work) is generated in laboratory…”
Augmenting short Cheap Talk scripts with a repeated Opt-Out Reminder in Choice Experiment surveys (2014, methodology): “The literature has several examples of conformity, i.e. how the individual’s decisions are governed by what other individuals do; see for example Frey and Meyer (2004); Shang and Croson (2007), Croson and Shang (2008), Alpizar et al. (2008) and Carlsson et al. (2008b).”
Social Norms and Energy Conservation (2011, background): “This would generate “conditional cooperation,” in which households increase (decrease) their contribution to a public good after being informed that others are contributing more (less) than previously believed, as in Alpizar et al. (2008), Fischbacher et al.”
Design of Stated Preference Surveys: Is There More to Learn from Behavioral Economics? (2010, background): “Context is of course a broad concept, but includes factors such as whether the action is observed by others (e.g., Alpizar et al. 2008a; Andreoni and Petrie 2004; Legget et al. 2003; List et al. 2004), information about what others do (Bardsley and Sausgruber 2005; Carlsson et al. 2008; Frey and…”
Leaders as role models and ‘belief managers’ in social dilemmas (2018, background): “, Croson and Shang (2008) , Martin and Randal (2008) , Alpizar et al. (2008) , Chen et al.”
Consumers and their behavior: state of the art in behavioral science supporting use phase modeling in LCA and ecodesign (2016, background): “For example, Alpizar et al. (2008) have found that people contributed higher amounts to the preservation of a national park if they received a small gift before deciding on their contributions.”
Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment (2016, background): “, 2008; Allcott and Rogers, 2014), charitable donations (Frey and Meier, 2004; Shang and Croson, 2009; Alpizar et al., 2008), tax compliance (Bobek et al.”