Shared social responsibility: A field experiment in pay-what-you-want pricing and charitable giving

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5989, 2010, Pages 325-327

  Gneezy, Ayelet ^a   Gneezy, Uri ^a   Nelson, Leif D ^b   Brown, Amber ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FIELDWORK; PHOTOGRAPH; PRICE DYNAMICS; PUBLIC GOODS; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; PURCHASING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 77954782322     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1186744     Document Type: Article

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