-stakes setting. The estimates reject extant models of giving, but are consistent with the new theory …

. Specifically, we study provision of charity care by private, nonprofit hospitals. We demonstrate that In the absence of large … positive income effects on charity care supply, convex preferences for the nonprofit hospital imply crowding out by other … private or government hospitals. Extending our model to include patient heterogeneity and impure altruism (rivalry) provides a …

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

This study develops theory and conducts an experiment to provide an understanding of why people initially give to …

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 …

chapter examines the state of the literature on the “altruism budget.” We first discuss whether an act needs to be totally … unselfish to be counted in the altruism budget. We then examine the various components that go into the altruism budget … research on whether the altruism budget is fixed across gifts to different non-profits, in different forms, or at different …

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