This study develops theory and uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to explore the economics of charity. We …

prevent safe inferences about differences in social preferences. We present new evidence from a natural field experiment in …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …

. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. When … post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources …

population that were household heads rose from 29.5 to 36.3. While some of this increase was due to the maturing of the"baby boom … sharply for the under 34 population. This paper explains household formations due to changes in headship rates in terms of …

in labor force participation has been accompanied by changes in allocation of time to various activities in the household … as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor force has been rising, the average amount of time input to household … tasks by all women has been declining over the last 50 years. It is valuable to analyze this in the household production …