Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …