Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …

altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, e.g., due to social pressure. We design a … door-to-door fund-raising drive in which some households are informed about the exact time of solicitation with a flyer on … important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of … respondents an audiovisual presentation about the recipients. The experiment yields three main findings. First, we find …

This study develops theory and uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to explore the economics of charity. We … side of charitable fundraising. Empirical results are in line with our theory: in gross terms, our lottery treatments …

experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism …

consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many … donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …

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 …

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

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 …