largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the … charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over 6000 charities in Canada, measured for up to 15 years, to provide … from other charities and charitable foundations, and donations gained from special fundraising activities, like galas or …

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness …

We motivate this paper with a puzzle. When we asked subjects to give five dollars to charity today, about 30 percent …

experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …

experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main … 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 …

consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many …

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

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 …