Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …. Notably, the method that scored best, the anonymous VCM, is the one most used by door-to-door fund raisers in the Netherlands. …