Commercial firms are increasingly tying the sales of their products with donations to a charitable cause. Apart from a … 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 …

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 …

-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 …

Netherlands and the US covering altruistic behaviour and reciprocity outside the lab. The results largely carry over. We argue …

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment …. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than … debit card donations. When debit replaces cash, participation drops by 87 percent.Conditional on participation, donors in …