There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness … charitable giving. -- Charitable giving ; threshold public goods ; fundraising ; field experiments …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in … fundraising ; natural field experiment … opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly …

principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …

volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … predictions of the model we ran an experiment in which we varied within-subjects the costs and benefits of monetary and volunteer … donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to …

elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee …, we study whether trustees can signal their trustworthiness by giving to charity. Our results show that donors are indeed … generosity, such as investments in corporate social responsibility or donations to charity during a political campaign, can …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …