Arbeitspapier
Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals’ intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We demonstrate that treatment effects differ across motivational types. Among weakly intrinsically motivated individuals, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically motivated individuals do not show any treatment response.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5998
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Public Goods
- Thema
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intrinsic motivation
crowding out
charitable giving
norms
taxes
public goods
randomized field experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Boyer, Pierre C.
Dwenger, Nadja
Rincke, Johannes
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Boyer, Pierre C.
- Dwenger, Nadja
- Rincke, Johannes
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2016
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