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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 …
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Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions Evidence from a Field Experiment
Adena, Maja - 2014
When asking for donations, charitable organizations often use suggestions concerning the amount of potential contributions. In our randomized field experiment, opera visitors received solicitation letters asking to support a social youth project organized by the opera house. The three different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057248
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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2014
We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size...
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More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK
Almunia, Miguel - 2018
This paper estimates the intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving using UK administrative tax return data, exploiting variation from a large tax reform. Using a variety of estimation methods and new instruments for the tax-price of giving, we find an intensive-margin...
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Giving in the Face of Risk
Cettolin, Elena - 2017
The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences interact in such situations. In this paper we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966905
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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2016
Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate:(i) a positive relationship between social group size and the number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the size of individual donations; (iii) no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986651
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770254
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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity : Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
effectiveness of social incentives -- that take the form of a donation received by a charity of the subject's choice -- to financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033504
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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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Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling in Charitable Giving
van der Weele, Joel J. - 2014
experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056823