Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate (i … the notion that giving in social groups is motivated by “relational altruism”. …

Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …

you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …

at the moment of voting and use the altruism scale proposed by Tankersley et al. (2007) to differentiate between …

third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to … intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the …

We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of …