field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

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 …

The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off … problem. We report on a field experiment the results of which show that donors who have pledged an amount are indeed more …

evidence of dominance in our online experiment: The three subsidy types are equally effective overall. At a more disaggregate …

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

We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over … incentive schemes, taking into account the goals of the charity and donor preferences. Two of these optimal incentives were … policy to evaluate effectiveness. The best-guess incentives in our initial field experiment turned out to be ineffective at …

We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to … subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … fundraising interventions ranging from soft to hard paternalism. Our design allows us to decompose spillover effects into a pure …

We conducted a field experiment in the natural setting of blood donations to test how oxytocin relates to empathy and … altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …