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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 … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
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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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Stochastic income and conditional generosity
Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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The Gates Effect in public goods experiments : how donors focus on the recipients favored by the wealthy
Corazzini, Luca; Cotton, Christopher; Longo, Enrico; … - 2021
laboratory experiment that introduces endowment and preference differences into such a framework to explore the impact of donor …
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The Gates Effect in public goods experiments : how donations flow to the recipients favored by the wealthy
Corazzini, Luca; Cotton, Christopher; Longo, Enrico; … - 2021
laboratory experiment that introduces endowment and preference differences into such a framework to explore the impact of donor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013483606
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Giving in a large economy : price vs. non-price effects in a field experiment
Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo - 2011
We conduct a large-scale field experiment with 2,440 subjects in which we exogenously vary the price of contributing to … education, situational variables such as meteorological conditions around the time of the experiment, and attitudinal variables …
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these … situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non …-competitive effect on charity selection, raising the value of charity provision per dollar of funding …
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Chapter 18 Philanthropy
Andreoni, James - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1201-1269). 2006
Philanthropy is one of the enduring areas of economic research. Why would people work hard only to give their earnings away? The paper explores the theoretical foundations, as well as the empirical and policy research on philanthropy. This paper reviews over 25 years worth of economic research,...
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