This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a … desirability of stimulative fiscal policies, public pensions, and inheritance taxes. …

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

If being asked to give to charity stimulates an emotional response, like empathy, that makes giving difficult to resist … donations to charity and randomly allow shoppers the opportunity to avoid solicitation by using the other door. We find the rate …

money to charity. Our subjects perform an effort task to earn money. In one condition they can have their efforts accrue to … a charity instead of themselves. In other conditions subjects may only earn money for their private account but then … donate it to a charity. We vary the timing and availability of donation opportunities in the monetary donation settings to …

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test … that highlights two predictions. First, larger gift amounts, holding education and income constant, is a proxy for altruism …). Second, those motivated by altruism will respond positively to appeals based on evidence, whereas those motivated by warm …

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

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …