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experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main … awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …
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confirm that the cost of intertemporally substituting activities is increasing over time: when alerts are issued on two …, reset these costs. Our findings imply that a time-varying decision rule that accounts for multiple day air quality forecasts …
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The practice of standardizing the designation of time is a central device for coordinating activities and economic … with others and engaging in those activities at their own preferred time. When time is standardized across large geographic … environmental conditions created by natural or "solar" time. This tension is at the heart of current state and national debates …
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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 …
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end of the experiment. Subjects exhibit strong preferences for donating time even when differential wage rates make it …Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the donor's opportunity cost …, subjects demonstrate behavior consistent with the theoretical assumption that gifts of time produce greater utility than the …
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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 …
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This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness …
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If social institutions, like fundraising, create incentives that generate utility from deciding to give, then some … donors would decline a request to give to charity now while agreeing now to give later. This meets the classic definition of … time-inconsistent choices. This is not because of a problem of self-control, but of social-control over the timing of the …
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experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …
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We examine the relationship between the price of giving and the decision to contribute in a framed field experiment (n …
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