awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …

spending crowds out the charity that ensues from these forces only modestly. Moreover, people's donations tend to rise when …

to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach … static theory and an experimental design that focused on short run substitution effects rather than dynamic interactions …. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …

Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University …

firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing …

The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism … varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it cannot identify the strength of warm glow and altruism preferences. These …

We investigate the impact of charity tie-ins on transaction probabilities and sale prices using a large database of … eBay auctions. We examine "natural experiments" of precisely matched clusters of charity and non-charity auctions with … to 6 percent greater maximum bid for charity items, depending on the fraction of auction proceeds that is donated to …