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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 … inform fundraising choices. …

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

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

: 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 …-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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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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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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Matching and challenge gifts to charity : evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments

Rondeau, Daniel (contributor); List, John A. (contributor) - 2008

charitable giving. -- Charitable giving ; threshold public goods ; fundraising ; field experiments …

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Modelling charitable donations to an unexpected natural disaster : evidence from the U.S. panel study of income dynamics

Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Taylor, Karl - 2009

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with … the largest inverse association with donations to needy and caring organizations. -- Charity ; donations ; system tobit …

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Time vs. money : the supply of voluntary labor and charitable donations across Europe

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bredtmann, Julia; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012

about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that volunteering is a consumption good, we analyze the …

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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 … opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly … fundraising ; natural field experiment …

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Preferences for consistency

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011

This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...

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Charitable behaviour and the big five personality traits : evidence from UK panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2015

This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...

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