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Does my contribution to your crowdfunding project matter

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In this article, the authors consider the dynamics of crowdfunding project support over time and find that people support crowdfunding projects financially when they believe that their contribution will make an impact, and predict that support for a crowdfunding project will increase as the project funding approaches its target goal.
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This article is published in Journal of Business Venturing.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 306 citations till now.

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On making causal claims : A review and recommendations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present methods that allow researchers to test causal claims in situations where randomization is not possible or when causal interpretation could be confounded; these methods include fixed-effects panel, sample selection, instrumental variable, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-differences models.
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The Goal-Gradient Hypothesis Resurrected: Purchase Acceleration, Illusionary Goal Progress, and Customer Retention

TL;DR: The goal-gradient hypothesis as discussed by the authors states that humans expend more effort as they approach a reward and the illusion of progress toward the goal induces purchase acceleration, which predicts greater retention and faster reengagement in the program.
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Initial coin offerings (ICOs) to finance new ventures

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the role of signaling ventures' technological capabilities in ICOs and found that technical white papers and high-quality source codes increase the amount raised, while patents are not associated with increased amounts of funding.
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Research on Crowdfunding: Reviewing the (Very Recent) past and Celebrating the Present:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review past work on crowdfunding in leading entrepreneurship and management journals and highlight the diverse contributions offered in the special issue articles, including five articles that each advance knowledge about crowdfunding in important ways.
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Crowdfunding Creative Ideas: The Dynamics of Project Backers

TL;DR: The authors empirically explore the dynamics associated with several factors, including collective attention effects from platform-sorting options, role of family and friends in supporting projects, the effects of social influence, and the role of project updates over the project-funding cycle.
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Work and motivation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance, including motivation, goal incentive, and attitude.
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Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications

TL;DR: This chapter discusses models for making pseudo-random draw, which combines asymptotic theory, Bayesian methods, and ML and NLS estimation with real-time data structures.
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A Simple Model of Herd Behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze a sequential decision model in which each decision maker looks at the decisions made by previous decision makers in taking her own decision, and they show that the decision rules that are chosen by optimizing individuals will be characterized by herd behavior.
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Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation

TL;DR: The authors summarize 35 years of empirical research on goal-setting theory, describing the core findings of the theory, the mechanisms by which goals operate, moderators of goal effects, the relation of goals and satisfaction, and the role of goals as mediators of incentives.
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Interaction terms in logit and probit models

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the correct way to estimate the magnitude and standard errors of the interaction effect in nonlinear models, which is the same way as in this paper.
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