Data and Code for "Does team competition increase pro-social lending? Evidence from online microfinance"

This project contains the data collected and analysis used for the paper "Does team competition increase pro-social lending? Evidence from online microfinance," published in Games and Economic Behavior.<br><br>The paper investigates how team competition affects pro-social lending on the microfinance website kiva.org. First, field data is used to show that lenders who join a team make 1.2 more loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries through Kiva than those who do not join a team. Second, a large-scale randomized field experiment is run through team forums to show that lenders make more loans when exposed to a message that combines goal-setting and coordination, and that goal-setting alone can increase lending of previously inactive teams.<br><br>Materials included are:1) 4 Stata .dta files containing the data2) 1 Stata .do file containing the analysis code<br>