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Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace

Lent, Max van - 2017

We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...

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A commercial gift for charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Te, Bao; Schippers, Anouk L. - 2016

charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report …, complete markets, and absent transaction cost, selling charity-linked bundles should not be profitable even when consumers are … significantly higher profits. No such effect is observed when the donation is limited to 2%. Offering charity-linked bundles …

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Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity

Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018

The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off-line fund raising activities. Cash and card payments differ in that the latter do not require individuals to donate at the time of the ask, disconnecting the decision to give from the...

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Crowdfunding public goods : an experiment

Ansink, Erik; Koetse, Mark; Bouma, Jetske A.; Hauck, Dominic - 2017

We assess the impact of different crowdfunding designs on the success of crowdfunded public goods using a lab-in-the-field experiment. Our design treatments aim to increase the efficiency of crowdfunding campaigns by raising aggregate contributions and decreasing possible coordination problems...

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Persuasion, justification and the communication of social impact

Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018

We experimentally investigate strategic communication about the impact of prosocial actions, which is central to policy debates about foreign aid or the environment. In our experiment, a "sender" receives an informative but noisy signal about the impact of a charitable donation. She then sends a...

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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start

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 …

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2016

-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …

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