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

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

because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the charities who, after getting the grant, reduce efforts of fund-raising … (fund-raising crowd out)? This is the first paper to separate these two effects. Using a panel of more than 8,000 charities …, we find that crowding out is significant, at about 72 percent. We find this crowding out is due primarily to reduced fund-raising …

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 …. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University … motivation. We conclude that charitable gifts increase in response to the promise of public recognition primarily because of …

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 …