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Matching and challenge gifts to charity: evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments
Rondeau, Daniel; List, John A. - 2008
This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268544
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269714
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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271934
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Charity as a signal of trustworthhiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278669
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Gender Differences in Charitable Giving
Piper, Greg; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate tocharitable causes but men are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860771
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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011
towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274632
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Charitable giving for overseas development: UK trends over a quarter century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2008
Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276695
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653464
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Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
Rondeau, Daniel; List, John A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822345
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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262485