We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of … firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing … respondents an audiovisual presentation about the recipients. The experiment yields three main findings. First, we find …

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

experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …

We examine the relationship between the price of giving and the decision to contribute in a framed field experiment (n …

consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many …

Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University … theories, we conduct a laboratory experiment with undergraduates, and find no evidence to support the alternative, altruistic …

experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main … awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …

to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …

If social institutions, like fundraising, create incentives that generate utility from deciding to give, then some … donors would decline a request to give to charity now while agreeing now to give later. This meets the classic definition of …