There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … inform fundraising choices. …

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …

fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts …

In many countries the government supports individuals' and companies' donations dedicated to charity organizations or …

A popular fundraising tool is donation matching, where every dollar is matched by a third party. But field experiments … exhaust the matching funds, so their donation is not pivotal to obtaining matching funds. We develop a theory of how beliefs … about peers' donations affect one's own likelihood of donation. We test our theory using novel "threshold match" treatments …