laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …

Microgiving, a new form of digital fundraising, operates by soliciting minuscule, recurring donations from large … numbers of potential donors. We evaluate a charity subscription program operated by Alibaba, China's largest retail platform …, which allows sellers to pledge a tiny portion of a product's revenue (2 cents per order) to charity, with donations made …

A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population …. We find that these "gender minority gaps" are robust, are as large as--or larger than--gender gaps between men and women … identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender …

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 …

experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …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 …