Pro-social mission and honesty – an artefactual field experiment with fundraising professionals

Maximilian Hiller, Bernd Josef Leisen and Vanessa Mertins

Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 238, issue C

Abstract: Using priming, we explored how fundraisers’ professional identity influences their reporting behavior in a coin-toss game. While unprimed fundraisers exhibited a payoff-maximizing behavior, primed participants did not show this behavior.

Keywords: Fundraising; Honesty; Artefactual field experiment; Priming; Coin-Toss Game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D01 D64 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111703

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