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 …

laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …

one's own contributions (impure altruism) and others contributions (pure altruism). Using multiple data sets from Germany …

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 …

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 …

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 …