Das Thema 'Freiwilliges Engagement' hat in den vergangenen Jahren sowohl politisch als auch gesellschaftlich Konjunktur. Ein Grund dafür ist, dass sich die Politik und einige Forscher:innen vom freiwilligen Engagement der Bevölkerung positive gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen versprechen - sowohl...

Unit donations are an alternative fundraising scheme in which potential donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than just giving money. Based on evidence from an online experiment with 8,673 participants, we demonstrate that well-designed unit donation schemes can...

We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...

We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to help the beneficiary increases the average donation....

Die Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung der Vereinten Nationen sehen eine Halbierung der Lebensmittelverschwendung bis 2030 vor. Das ist ein Ziel, zu dem die Tafeln für Deutschland auch durch eine optimierte Verteilung von Lebensmittelspenden einen erheblichen Beitragleisten können. Wir...

In recent years, the concern for durable electrical and electronic products as well as the recovery and recycling of electrical and electronic waste has increased, simultaneously with new initiatives aimed not only at protecting the environment, but ensuring consumer's health, while...

Goal-oriented transformative change processes - that is, system-transforming processes that are guided by the ambition to resolve current or expected future societal challenges of various kinds - can only start once possible goals are considered by key stakeholders and the relevant actors are...

The marine environment provides, directly or indirectly, a wide range of benefits on humans that are not just economic but also on health and well-being. All these privileges are returned in the form of pollution. Human actions are destroying the marine living environment and with this the human...

This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching,...

This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching,...