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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these … situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non …-competitive effect on charity selection, raising the value of charity provision per dollar of funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072503
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156
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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2016
the notion that giving in social groups is motivated by “relational altruism” …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986651
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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?
Johnsen, Åshild - 2014
In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043209
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace : A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021
-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are … elicited. We find that action-oriented altruism accounts for a significant increase in effort, while there is no additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316327
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2016
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997075
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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-Profit Provision and Charity Selection
Perroni, Carlo - 2015
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031990
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Opting-In to Prosocial Incentives
Schwartz, Daniel - 2018
Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives – where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization – can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926542
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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences, and Beliefs
Engl, Florian - 2018
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We study experimentally how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior in one domain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933669
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Adaptive Social Learning
March, Christoph - 2016
The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their experience gained in past rounds to draw inferences from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996206