Showing 1 - 10 of 351
Subsidizing charitable giving, for example, for victims of natural disasters, is very popular, not only with governments but also with private organizations. Many companies, for example, match their employees' charitable contributions, hoping that this will foster the willingness to contribute....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026394
This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled field experiment. We match the donations of students at the University of Zurich who, each semester, have to decide whether they wish to contribute to two Social Funds. Our results support the hypothesis that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029520
We examine by means of an artefactual field experiment on a representative sample of Italian adults, the impact of information and belief elicitation on charitable-giving when donors know (or express their beliefs on) what the organizations received in terms of aggregate donations in the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148774
We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317373
An influential result in the literature on charitable giving is that matching subsidies dominate rebate subsidies in raising funds. We investigate whether this result extends to 'unit donation' schemes, a popular alternative form of soliciting donations. There, the donors' choices are about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385386
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014239979
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483463
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452026
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: information provision, belief elicitation and threshold on distribution. We frame this investigation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641588
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: information provision, belief elicitation and threshold on distribution. We frame this investigation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957497