firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing …

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 … varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it cannot identify the strength of warm glow and altruism preferences. These …

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 …

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …

spending crowds out the charity that ensues from these forces only modestly. Moreover, people's donations tend to rise when …

to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender … worked. Education, occupation and family formation mediate half of this decline. Holding skills constant, girls who conform … less to gender norms live in regions with higher female employment and university attendance, highlighting the role of the …