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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...
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Optimal incentives to give
Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan - 2020
112,000 unique individuals. The price of giving is varied by offering a fixed match if the donation meets a threshold …
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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 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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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014
two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to the primary donation decision, namely, how much to contribute to the … on aggregate donations. This is because defaults in the donation domain induce some people to donate more and others to …
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Matched fundraising: evidence from a natural field experiment
Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - 2010
We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera House, we mailed 14,000 regular opera attendees a letter describing a charitable...
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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014
intermediary and a fee contributed to the low donation rate. Our findings suggest that online platforms for charitable giving may …
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Do beliefs about peers matter for donation matching? : experiments in the field and laboratory
Gee, Laura K.; Schreck, Michael J. - 2017
A popular fundraising tool is donation matching, where every dollar is matched by a third party. But field experiments … exhaust the matching funds, so their donation is not pivotal to obtaining matching funds. We develop a theory of how beliefs … about peers' donations affect one's own likelihood of donation. We test our theory using novel "threshold match" treatments …
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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...
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Charitable bequests and wealth at death
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John - 2012
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...
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