National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but … public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

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 …

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 …

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

In a fundraising field experiment we show that individuals are not only conditionally cooperative, but that they are … looking) high status person. In our experiment the probability to receive a donation in a train is 65% higher in the low …

We conducted a field experiment with a charitable group to investigate whether giving the donor an option to write a …

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of …

they are an “average altruism type” relative to their audience. Our findings suggest caution in using public observation to …