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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...
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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 … inform fundraising choices. …
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How close to home does charity begin?
Grimson, Duncan; Knowles, Stephen Mark; … - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 34, pp. 3700-3708
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No substitute for the real thing : the importance of in-context field experiments in fundraising
Goswami, Indranil; Urminsky, Oleg - In: Marketing science : the marketing journal of the … 39 (2020) 6, pp. 1052-1070
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Oxytocin, empathy, altruism and charitable giving : experimental evidence from blood donations
Jukić, Irena; Kovač, Dejan; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …
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Giving once, giving twice : a two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018
We study intertemporal crowding between two fundraising campaigns for the same charitable organization by manipulating …
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Using descriptive social norms to increase charitable giving : the power of local norms
Agerström, Jens; Carlsson, Rickard; Nicklasson, Linda; … - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 52 (2016), pp. 147-153
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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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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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