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The Pledging Puzzle : How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving

Andreoni, James - 2019

What is the value of pledges if they are often reneged upon? In this paper we show - both theoretically and experimentally - that pledges can be used to screen donors and to better understand their motives for giving. In return, nonprofit managers can use the information they glean from pledges...

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More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK

Almunia, Miguel - 2019

This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....

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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving

Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022

We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...

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Does Online Salience Predict Charitable Giving? Evidence from SMS Text Donations

Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberley; Talavera, Sasha; Vi, … - 2021

We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities’...

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Social Finance

Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - 2021

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...

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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 2016

Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate (i …

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Does Online Fundraising Increase Charitable Giving? A Nationwide Field Experiment on Facebook

Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024

Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …

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Optimal Targeting in Fundraising: A Machine-Learning Approach

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021

causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity’s fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …

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Charity auctions for the happy few

Bos, Olivier - 2008

Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …

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