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Cappellari, Lorenzo; Ghinetti, Paolo; Turati, Gilberto - 2021

"warm glow", reputational concerns and (impure) altruism are important determinants of giving. Moreover, the unobservable …

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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?

Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

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Charitable giving and intermediation

Chlaß, Nadine; Gangadharan, Lata; Jones, Kristy - 2015

Charitable donations are often made through intermediaries who can fund themselves from these same donations. Donors who purchase charitable output through an intermediary incur a principal-agent problem with unobservable prices. We compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …

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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign

Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021

The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...

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Intertemporal altruism

Anand Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others - it is consequence-dated - or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2016

-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …

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Impure altruism and other donor attraction factors : a study based on a database of non-government organizations (NGOs) in the Philippines

Reside, Renato E. - 2017

This study uses panel data on a sample of non-government organizations (NGOs) to estimate the factors that motivate donors to contribute to them. The results of empirical estimation suggest that a mix of conventional and tax factors influence donors. The results are consistent with the...

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