altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …

We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts … crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …

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 … 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 …

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 …