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This paper investigates the determinants of generosity in an experiment on charity to real-life welfare recipients. It tests the effects of various measures of unconditional altruism and conditional or reciprocal altruism. The results show strong support for conditional or reciprocal altruism....
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subsequent donation decisions without additional incentives. Our results suggest the presence of consistency seeking behaviour …
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donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … altruism increases the efficiency of donation choices, substitutability of donations between money and time and crowding out …
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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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this misperception does affect giving to poverty-relief charities. We report a real-donation experiment investigating links …
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? 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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Experiments involving multiple public goods with contribution thresholds capture many features of charitable giving environments in which donors try to coordinate their contributions across various potential recipients. We present results from a laboratory experiment that introduces endowment...
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subsequent charitable giving. To do so we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … spillover effect, which identifies the impact of previous pro-social behavior on subsequent donation decisions and a crowding … to the donation decision. Most importantly, we find that the spillover effects depend on how the initial pro …
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subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … spillover effect, which identifies the impact of previous pro-social behavior on subsequent donation decisions and a crowding … to the donation decision. Most importantly, we find that the spillover effects depend on how the initial pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430934
Experiments involving multiple public goods with contribution thresholds capture many features of charitable giving environments in which donors try to coordinate their contributions across various potential recipients. We present results from a laboratory experiment that introduces endowment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013483606