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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

inform fundraising choices. …

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …

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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign

Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021

The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...

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Intertemporal altruism

Anand Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others - it is consequence-dated - or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …

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Social media charity campaigns and pro-social behaviour : evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2023

Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...

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