you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …

. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in midwestern Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment …

experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … members of the two groups indicating that subjects in this experiment do not treat charitable giving as a normal good. …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness …

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

's contacts. However, results from a field experiment where broadcasting of the initial pledges was randomized suggest that the … observational findings were likely due to homophily rather than genuine social contagion effects. The experiment also shows that … (30 out of 6.4 million users reached) were made. Finally, an online survey experiment showed that both the presence of an …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …