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Subsidizing unit donations : matches, rebates, and discounts compared
Diederich, Johannes; Eckel, Catherine C.; Epperson, Raphael - 2020 - This version: October 7, 2020
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...
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Subsidizing quantity donations : matches, rebates, and discounts compared
Diederich, Johannes; Eckel, Catherine C.; Epperson, Raphael - 2019 - This version: November 22, 2018
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...
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2022 - revised
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation frequency and value to Save the Children during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793072
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nation-wide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2020
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? We implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly … assigning all of the country's 8,000 zip codes to Save the Children Facebook fundraising videos or a pure control and studied … fundraising increased donation frequency and value to Save the Children during the campaign and in the subsequent five weeks; (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179173
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024 - 2nd revision
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471994
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478191
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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503017
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
inform fundraising choices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502690
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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
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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