It is common for charitable organizations to allow donors to place material restrictions on their gifts. Nonprofits and … fundraisers generally believe that allowing gift restrictions will increase donation revenue. Restricted gifts are costly to the … nonprofit because of increased management expenses and an inability to reallocate gifts to higher valued uses. We report the …

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker …

of 144 respondents showed that there is a significant difference in various types of gifts for seven different recipient … groups. Gender and age were also found as significant variables in choosing gifts. Despite the small number of respondents …

strategic lead donor. In order to provide a more direct test of the theoretical prediction, we conduct a laboratory experiment … matching and a seed money fundraising scheme, followed by sequential contributions by the two donors. We find that matching …

worker to “repay the gift” to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we …