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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, an d donor's trust: experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2018
In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group … charity . The choice of donation values over time shows strong persistence such that the difference between the two groups …
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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust : experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2017
In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639053
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Does nudging intentions translate into action? : why nudging pledges to charities does not result in increased donations
Gaudeul, Alexia; Kaczmarek, Magdalena C. - 2017
and can improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment that was … designed to evaluate not only the effectiveness of a default manipulation on decision making in a charity giving context, but … experiment, and those who kept participating were less likely to pledge again. This, along with high attrition among nudged …
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Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity
Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018
The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off … problem. We report on a field experiment the results of which show that donors who have pledged an amount are indeed more …
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An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck
Bar-El, Ronen; Hatsor, Limor; Snir, Avichai - 2023 - Last revision: February 23, 2023
We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232958
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Keep Charity Charitable
Galle, Brian D. - 2010
This Article responds to recent claims, most prominently by Malani, Posner, and Henderson, that much of the work of the charitable sector should be farmed out to for-profit firms. For-profit firms are said to be more efficient because they can offer higher-powered incentives to cut costs. I...
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How Charitable Organizations Influence Federal Tax Policy : 'Rent-Seeking' Charities or Virtuous Politicians?
Knauer, Nancy J. - 2010
Tax-exempt charitable organizations exert considerable influence over Congress, the Department of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service in matters dealing with exemption from federal income tax and the tax deductibility of charitable contributions. This Article uses both public choice...
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The driving forces of charitable donation : a case study of ERKE company
Zhang, Leilei - In: Thailand and the world economy 41 (2023) 2, pp. 85-102
The paper, starting with the flood disaster that erupted in Henan in July 2021 and taking the enterprise charity …”, provides a case reference for promoting the sustainable development of corporate charity and enterprise strategic development …
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start
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 … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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