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How low can you go? : charity reporting when donations signal income and generosity
Bracha, Anat; Vesterlund, Lise - 2013 - This version: October 18, 2013
Consistent with nonprofit fundraising practices, donation visibility has been shown to increase giving. While concern … donation-visibility may be harmful when individuals prefer to be perceived as poor-and-generous rather than rich …, donation-visibility fails to increase contributions as low-income individuals select low donation amounts that are unlikely to …
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Giving to Poverty Relief Charities : The Impact of Beliefs and Misperceptions Towards Income Redistribution in a Real Donation Experiment
Luccasen, III, R. Andrew - 2017
this misperception does affect giving to poverty-relief charities. We report a real-donation experiment investigating links …
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Is Charitable Giving a Zero Sum Game? - The Effect of Competition Between Charities on Giving Behavior
Schmitz, Jan - 2020
? Or can the demand for doing good be satisfied by giving to any organization? In a donation dictator game, I vary …
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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...
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Charity and Public Libraries : Does Government Funding Crowd-Out Donations?
B. Ferreira Neto, Amir - 2017
There are over 9,000 public libraries in the United States servicing more than 1.5 billion people and raising over $11.5 billion dollars in revenue with approximately 8% of this total coming from donations. This paper analyzes the determinants of donations to public libraries testing the...
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Demand for Giving to Multiple Charities : An Experimental Study
Filiz-Ozbay, Emel - 2018
We study how competition among charities affects individuals' giving behavior. We characterize situations where charities benefiting substitute or complementary causes incentivize donations by offering subsidies in the form of rebates. Our theory predicts that an increase in the rebate rate...
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Promises Undone : How Committed Pledges Impact Donations to Charity
Fosgaard, Toke - 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...
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Zakat : A Case Study of Constraining Free Riding in Charity
Al-Bawwab, Rania - 2021
When the private incentives faced by individuals in a society are not properly aligned with their shared goals, a collective action problem arises. This paper focuses on the free-rider problem of aid, the collective action problem of getting people to contribute privately to charity. It examines...
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Does nudging intentions translate into action? : why nudging pledges to charities does not result in increased donations
Gaudeul, Alexia; Kaczmarek, Magdalena C. - 2017
Recent evidence suggests that nudges, i.e. alterations in the decisional context, can have large effects on decisions and can improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment that was designed to evaluate not only the effectiveness of a default...
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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