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Charitable giving by the poor : a field experiment on matching and distance to charitable output in Kyrgyzstan

Adena, Maja; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Huck, Steffen - 2019

Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle or higher income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor. Despite this focus, the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field...

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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019

themselves by distance; fundraising (through matching) for one charity raises checkbook giving to that charity, irrespective of … observability of charities' location such that each donor faces a socially close 'home' and a distant 'away' charity. We find that … distance; but checkbook giving to the unmatched charity is not affected. For lead donors, this implies that the social distance …

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Selfishly benevolent or benevolently selfish : when self-interest undermines versus promotes prosocial behavior

Zlatev, Julian J.; Miller, Dale T. - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 137 (2016), pp. 112-122

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Do I care if you are paid? : a field experiment on charitable donations

Genîzî, Ûrî; Rau, Holger A.; Samek, Anya Savikhin; … - 2017

This study investigates how information on solicitors' compensation affects charitable giving in a door-to-door field experiment with more than 2,800 households. We vary whether solicitors are paid or not and the information about this compensation that potential donors receive. Relative to the...

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Matching donations without crowding out? : some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2017

Is there a way of matching donations that avoids crowding out? We introduce a novel matching method where the matched amount is allocated to a different project, present some simple theoretical considerations that predict reduced crowding out or crowding in (depending on the degree of...

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When should the ask be a nudge? The effect of default amounts on charitable donations

Goswami, Indranil; Urminsky, Oleg - In: Journal of marketing research : JMR 53 (2016) 5, pp. 829-846

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Can monetary incentives increase organ donations?

Eyting, Markus; Hosemann, Arne; Johannesson, Magnus - In: Economics letters 142 (2016), pp. 56-58

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Do sympathy biases induce charitable giving? The effects of advertising content

Sudhir, K.; Roy, Subroto; Cherian, Mathew - In: Marketing science : the marketing journal of the … 35 (2016) 6, pp. 849-869

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An experimental study of corporate social responsibility through charitable giving in Bertrand markets

Feicht, Robert; Grimm, Veronika; Seebauer, Michael - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 124 (2016), pp. 88-101

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Social comparison nudges : guessing the norm increases charitable giving

Bartke, Simon; Friedl, Andreas; Gelhaar, Felix; Reh, Laura - 2016

Social comparison nudges that employ descriptive norms were found to increase charitable giving. This paper finds that individuals who receive a descriptive norm donate significantly more when they have to guess the descriptive norm beforehand. We argue that guessing draws attention to the norm...

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