Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations … without incentives can predict heterogeneity in charitable responses to peer decisions. We elicit beliefs about donations in a …

Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor … preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments … using targeted give-aways to certain donors. A simpler fundraising strategy using only the social dimension of donor …

drives the contagion of anti-social but not prosocial behavior. The results yield policy implications with regards to …

opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group compensation and public announcement of performance have little effect on work … to charity, and group compensation significantly increases the share donating. The results suggest that interpersonal … interactions in the workplace environment may have important spillover effects on prosocial behavior outside of work. …

earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … the effect of income on charitable giving depends on whether the income is earned and then test whether any difference in … the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both …

opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group compensation and public announcement of performance have little effect on work … to charity, and group compensation significantly increases the share donating. The results suggest that interpersonal … interactions in the workplace environment may have important spillover effects on prosocial behavior outside of work …

laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that … prosocial behavior …

Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor … preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments … using targeted give-aways to certain donors. A simpler fundraising strategy using only the social dimension of donor …