@article{Messer:127076,
      recid = {127076},
      author = {Messer, Kent D. and Kaiser, Harry M. and Schulze, William  D.},
      title = {Context and Voluntary Contributions: An Experimental  Analysis of Communication, Voting, and Status Quo Bias},
      address = {2005},
      number = {642-2016-43935},
      series = {WP},
      pages = {27},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {This research examines the effect of three factors—cheap  talk, voting, and the status quo of the
donation—on the  voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM). Using undergraduate  business
students, results show that contributions as a  percent of income in the last of ten rounds range
from 18%  for the case of no cheap talk, no voting, and a status quo  of not giving to 94% in the
case where all three contexts  are combined. These results demonstrate the surprising  result that
context can make the simple VCM produce  sustained efficiencies similar to incentive  compatible
public-good mechanisms.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/127076},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.127076},
}