This study develops theory and uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to explore the economics of charity. We …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …

. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

prevent safe inferences about differences in social preferences. We present new evidence from a natural field experiment in …

This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public …

We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards …, but not of pure altruism, workers exert substantially more effort when their work is consequential to their employer, but …

an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources …