This study develops theory and uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to explore the economics of charity. We … side of charitable fundraising. Empirical results are in line with our theory: in gross terms, our lottery treatments …

Despite the increasing use by charities, significant uncertainty exists about optimal online fundraising mechanisms …, especially when large donor pools show substantial heterogeneities. We use an online natural field experiment with over 700 … given money and/or volunteered. For example, framing the charity's membership price as a discount increases response rates …

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal … attention. For their part, economists have recently explored how communication affects empathy, altruism, and giving rates to …

interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the "hidden costs" of conditional incentives … to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering … economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate … incentives, combining all of these effects, positively and significantly increased donations, ignoring individuals who took …

This study develops theory and conducts an experiment to provide an understanding of why people initially give to …

We conducted a natural field experiment to explore the effect of price changes on charitable contributions. To … design of fundraising campaigns and provide avenues for future empirical and theoretical work on charitable giving. Further …

pervasive in fundraising, yet little is known about its effectiveness. We conduct a field experiment at a public university in …

large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina testing the effectiveness of information, social and economic incentives …. We find that only higher-valued economic incentives generated more donations, increasing in the value of the incentive …. These incentives did not create adverse selection in the safety and usability of the donated blood. We discuss the …