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 …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …

insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …

experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … members of the two groups indicating that subjects in this experiment do not treat charitable giving as a normal good. …

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 …