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Philanthropy is one of the enduring areas of economic research. Why would people work hard only to give their earnings … away? The paper explores the theoretical foundations, as well as the empirical and policy research on philanthropy. This …
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We investigate the impact of empathy and impulsiveness on charitable giving using a real donation experiment. We confirm that greater empathy predicts greater charitable giving. Contrary to recent literature, however, we find a significant negative relationship between impulsiveness and donation...
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What is the value of pledges if they are often reneged upon? In this paper we show - both theoretically and experimentally - that pledges can be used to screen donors and to better understand their motives for giving. In return, nonprofit managers can use the information they glean from pledges...
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subsidies to givers? Is religious giving different? Which fundraising approaches "work", and is more charity always better …? Questions like these make philanthropy and fundraising among the most dynamic research areas in economics today. This research … Pay More for Charity-Linked Products' -- Ayelet Gneezy, Uri Gneezy, Gerhard Riener and Leif D. Nelson (2012), 'Pay …
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