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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers
Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019
themselves by distance; fundraising (through matching) for one charity raises checkbook giving to that charity, irrespective of … observability of charities' location such that each donor faces a socially close 'home' and a distant 'away' charity. We find that … distance; but checkbook giving to the unmatched charity is not affected. For lead donors, this implies that the social distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105442
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Welfare-based altruism
Breitmoser, Yves; Vorjohann, Pauline - 2018
functions known from prospect theory. The resulting preferences are non-convex, which captures giving, sorting, and taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900073
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Career concerns as public good : the role of signaling for open source software development
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023
Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492182
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2022 - revised
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 … measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation frequency and value to Save the Children during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793072
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nation-wide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2020
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? We implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly … assigning all of the country's 8,000 zip codes to Save the Children Facebook fundraising videos or a pure control and studied … fundraising increased donation frequency and value to Save the Children during the campaign and in the subsequent five weeks; (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179173
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024 - 2nd revision
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471994
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503017
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Matching donations without crowding out? : some theoretical considerations and a field experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2015
bigger lead gift for raising smaller contribu-tions in a fundraising campaign? To answer these questions, we present a novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280712
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Charitable giving and nonbinding contribution-level suggestions : evidence from a field experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - 2013
When asking for donations, charitable organizations often use suggestions concerning the amount of potential contributions. However, the evidence concerning the effects of such suggestions is scarce and inconsistent. Unlike the majority of existing studies concerned with small-money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763123
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Tax-price elasticity of charitable donations : evidence from the German taxpayer panel
Adena, Maja - 2014
I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that the permanent tax-price elasticity varies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237654