7 , 8 When we analyze ice cream weight per euro spent (models 1M and 2M), we still find a highly significantly positive effect for treatment COMPLIMENT, but only a weakly significant effect for treatment TIP.
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Immaterial and monetary gifts in economic transactions: evidence from the field.
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Although most coefficients are slightly negative, there is only one marginally significant result indicating that owners provide slightly less on average in the compliment treatment (see model 3O).
In our regression model in Table 2 we observe both differences to the baseline to be highly significant even while using salesperson fixed effects and experimenter dummy variables (models 1 and 2). 7 , 8 When we analyze ice cream weight per euro spent (models 1M and 2M), we still find a highly significantly positive effect for treatment COMPLIMENT, but only a weakly significant effect for treatment TIP.
While the (initially higher) effects of material gifts do not exhibit a clear trend, the effects of immaterial gifts get stronger with repeated interactions.