Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study … their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly … shift donations to other charities across time. To explain this, we develop a two-period model with two sources of warm glow …

Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study … their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly … shift donations to other charities across time. To explain this, we develop a two-period model with two sources of warm glow …

significantly when these take place in public. Also, the amount of money given in charitable donations seems to be sensitive to the … donations are costly for the participants, the announcement of subsequent identity disclosure results in significantly higher … donations reduces contributions to the public good significantly. The regression results indicate that conditional cooperators …

We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk … tolerance and patience in intertemporal choice increase, in general, the level of donations, albeit the effects are non …