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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?
Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012
Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...
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Can charitable appeals identify and exploit belief heterogeneity?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2021
Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...
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Prosociality spillovers of working with others
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2018
opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group compensation and public announcement of performance have little effect on work … to charity, and group compensation significantly increases the share donating. The results suggest that interpersonal …
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Communities and testing for Covid-19
Stillman, Steven; Tonin, Mirco - 2021
Between November 18th and 25th, 2020, 348,810 out of 500,607 (69.7 percent) eligible residents of the South Tyrol region of Italy volunteered to take a Covid-19 rapid antigen test. We examine the community characteristics that are associated with higher testing rates. Our findings point to a...
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Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection
Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014
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...
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Impure prosocial motivation in charity provision : warm-glow charities and implications for public funding
Scharf, Kimberley Ann - 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. …
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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 … were previously asked but never donated should not be targeted. Further, the charity requires only publicly available …
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Relational warm glow and giving in social group
Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 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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Relational altruism and giving in social groups
Scharf, Kimberly A.; Smith, Sarah - 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...
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