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

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

. 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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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