elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee …, we study whether trustees can signal their trustworthiness by giving to charity. Our results show that donors are indeed … generosity, such as investments in corporate social responsibility or donations to charity during a political campaign, can …

competition between charities. Do people have a need to satisfy their demand for giving by contributing to a particular charity … relative price of giving to a randomly selected charity in the choice set by introducing a matching grant. I find weak … substitution between charities when giving to more than one charity is possible, as the donated amounts to individual charities …

resource when they are motivated by a combination of self-interest and other motivations such as altruism, reciprocity … strategies. Our empirical results are inconsistent with models of altruism, reciprocity and inequity aversion …

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study whether the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of …

experiment, we test whether altruistic behavior in the form of charitable giving is indeed correlated with trustworthiness and … evolution of social preferences. -- altruism ; evolution of cooperation ; costly signaling ; social preferences ; trust …