experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …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 …

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising … experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main …

to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many … 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 … theories, we conduct a laboratory experiment with undergraduates, and find no evidence to support the alternative, altruistic …

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of … firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing … respondents an audiovisual presentation about the recipients. The experiment yields three main findings. First, we find …

a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … approximately 30 percent of the wage gap observed among married men and women with children. If the need for coordination is …

implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less … favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …

We examine the relationship between the price of giving and the decision to contribute in a framed field experiment (n …

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