Essays about: "warm-glow"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word warm-glow.

  1. 1. The Effect of Introducing a Curbside Recycling System on the Recycling Behavior of Households

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jenny Särnholm; [2022]
    Keywords : curbside recycling; recycling behavior; circular economy; waste management; Sweden; Callaway and Sant Anna;

    Abstract : This research investigates whether the implementation of a curbside recycling system has an effect on the behavior of households with regard to the recycling of packaging material in Sweden. Previous research presented in the literature points out that the decision to engage in recycling behavior, rather than free-riding on the contributions of others, is based on the perceived contribution of others. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Opportunity Cost of Households´ Recycling Efforts : The Role of Norms and Warm-Glow Motives

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle

    Author : Sara Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : curbside recycling; norms; opportunity cost of time; household efforts; fastighetsnära insamling; normer; alternativkostnad av tid; hushållens börda;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to examine households´ preferences towards relaxing the time demanding aspects of transporting sorted packaging waste. According to welfare economics, households should be willing to pay an amount equal to their reservation wage to benefit from more leisure time. However, specific types of norms, e.g. READ MORE

  4. 3. Giving It All: The impact of a minimum restriction on donor behavior

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Simon Billinger; [2020]
    Keywords : Charitable giving; Pay-what-you-want; Minimum restriction; Anchoring; Warm glow;

    Abstract : This paper uses a standard dictator game approach where each subject takes the role of the dictator and the counterpart is a charitable organization in order to explore changes in behavior following the introduction of minimum donation amount. While individuals in the control group could select any donation they wanted and keep the rest of the endowment, participants in the treatment group had to donate at least 30% of the endowment if they chose to donate. READ MORE

  5. 4. When Knowing More About a Crisis Decreases Charitable Aid: Victim Statistics Causes Lower Anticipated Warm Glow and Help Efforts for Specifically Single Identifiable Victims.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Oskar Sundfelt; [2015]
    Keywords : identifiable victim effect; pseudoinefficacy; anticipated warm glow; proportion dominance; charitable aid; willingness to pay; help effects; anticipated emotion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Prior research indicates that the increase in help towards 1 identified victim (identifiable victim effect) is partly driven by affective reasoning. When negative affective information is salient, help towards victims that can be helped decline, an effect known as pseudoinefficacy. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Integration of Altruistic Motives and Crowding-Out into Policy Making for Regenerative Common Pool Resource Use Dilemmas

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Laura Lyhs; [2012-07-25]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : As behavioral economics has become an important input to economic theory in the recent past, when considering public good provision and common pool resource management, it is a logical consequence to include it into policy making and mechanism design for these scenarios, as well. This paper looks at the introduction of an optimal voluntary incentive mechanism to a scenario in which a regulator attempts the governance of a regenerative common pool resource. READ MORE