Similar Search Results

Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011

approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory … contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386444

Bidding to give in the field

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, J. H. C.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - In: Journal of public economics 105 (2013), pp. 72-85

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792652

Reprint of: Bidding to give in the field

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - In: Journal of public economics 114 (2014), pp. 87-100

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491074

Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity

Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018

The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off-line fund raising activities. Cash and card payments differ in that the latter do not require individuals to donate at the time of the ask, disconnecting the decision to give from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844580

The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935

Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502690

Does team competition increase pro-social lending? : evidence from online microfinance

Chen, Roy; Chen, Yan; Liu, Yang; Mei, Qiaozhu - 2014

We investigate the effects of team competition on pro-social lending activity on Kiva.org, the first microlending website to match lenders with entrepreneurs in developing countries. Using naturally occurring field data, we find that lenders who join teams contribute 1.2 more loans ($30–$42)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413618

Optimal incentives to give

Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan - 2020

We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over 112,000 unique individuals. The price of giving is varied by offering a fixed match if the donation meets a threshold amount (e.g. "give at least $25 and the charity receives a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231620

The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476

Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation

Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018

Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809908

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last