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 …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …

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 … problem. We report on a field experiment the results of which show that donors who have pledged an amount are indeed more …

-in-the-field experiment. Our design treatments aim to increase the efficiency of crowdfunding campaigns by raising aggregate contributions and … contributions. Amongst others, we explore the potential of seed money and the impact of the attraction effect. Using a four-day time … window we implement our crowdfunding experiment using a web-based user interface with multiple threshold public goods …

debates about foreign aid or the environment. In our experiment, a "sender" receives an informative but noisy signal about the …

charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report … the results of an experiment that investigates for different of these schemes whether they are able to increase profits …, complete markets, and absent transaction cost, selling charity-linked bundles should not be profitable even when consumers are …

cost in a controlled large-scale laboratory experiment, where subjects play the volunteer's dilemma only once. The … experiment varies group sizes ranging from groups of 3 to about 100, and 2 different cost/benefit ratios. Results show that high …

interactions on the decision to participate by systematically varying social attributes in a choice experiment. Based on a large …