A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. In a laboratory experiment, we show that individuals use …

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. In a laboratory experiment, we show that individuals use …

When giving to one charity, individuals face two types of uncertainty, descriptive and normative. We report a between …-subjects charitable-giving experiment which provides first data on normative uncertainty (n=1890). In our experiment, participants can bid … expert advice. Second, the data show that both information and expert advice, if randomly provided, impact charity choice …

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …

We investigate lying behavior when lying is undetectable and payoffs are split with charity. 524 Participants are … randomly assigned to share all, some, or none of the payoff with a charity of their choice. The payoff earned depends on the … examine lying behavior as the share of the payoffs to charity gradually increases. Our results are as follows: (i …

by this finding, I conduct an intertemporal donation experiment to closely investigate this moderation effect. I design … an experiment that mimics a telephone fundraiser and vary both the timing of the donation (immediate vs. delayed) and the …

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 …

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 … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

large-scale natural field experiment and a laboratory experiment. Similar to findings in the literature, conventional … matching for the same project results in partial crowding out in the field experiment and, as predicted, crowding out is … reduced under the novel matching scheme. The lab experiment provides more fine-tuned evidence for the change in crowding and …

-scale natural field experiment and a laboratory experiment. Similar to findings in the literature, conventional matching for the … same project results in partial crowding out in the field experiment and, as predicted, crowding out is reduced under the … novel matching scheme. The lab experiment provides more fine-tuned evidence for the change in crowding and yields further …