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Avoiding the Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117564
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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
Lacetera, Nicola - 2011
We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate, and more so the higher the value of the rewards....
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Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2011
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of peoples' self-esteem on the...
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The Hidden Benefits of Control : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig E. - 2011
. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119950
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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
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Testing Motives for Charitable Giving : A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence
Deb, Rahul - 2012
donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107021
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Toward an Understanding of Why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Edwards, James - 2013
People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal … attention. For their part, economists have recently explored how communication affects empathy, altruism, and giving rates to …
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Hey Look at Me : The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving
Karlan, Dean S. - 2012
Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University service club to test the impact of a promise of public recognition on giving. Some may claim that they respond to an offer of public recognition not to improve their social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112795
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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment
Fong, Christina M. - 2010
We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative respondent panel that is maintained by a private survey research firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152510
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The Abcs of Charitable Solicitation
Meer, Jonathan - 2010
A substantial experimental literature suggests that a personal solicitation is an effective way to induce people to make charitable donations. We examine whether this result generalizes to a non-experimental setting. Specifically, we estimate the effect of a marginal personal solicitation using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152572