Unusual auctions for particular goods/services in which participants continue to contribute some amount in every round, until all but one person drops out. The last person to drop out wins the thing being auctioned.

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Category: Incentives/gifts

Sub-category: Direct incentive

Relevant theories: Auction theory

Type of evidence: Field-exp-charity

Evidence strength (ad hoc assessment):

Standard charity auctions don't clearly raise much more than the value of the goods. All-pay auctions work well in theory and in the lab, but other methods (“VCMs”, lotteries) work better in the field (Onderstal et al).

Prevalence:

Very common (APA rare)

• papers

• Charity Auctions: A Field Experimentast

• Bidding To Give In The Field, Full text

Contributors David Reinstein