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This article on Dominant Assurance Contracts looked at offering refund bonuses only to early contributors (as opposed to all contributors). It found that this was successful and incentivizing early participation without limiting long-tail participation. In a lab test, this increased the rate of success among campaigns by 50%.

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Author: Timothy Cason, Alex Tabarrrok, and Robertas Zubrickas

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