People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal … attention. For their part, economists have recently explored how communication affects empathy, altruism, and giving rates to …

display no difference in rationality from population averages and there is evidence of altruism among participants. We provide …

Altruism, understood as the individual disposition to sacrifice personal income to improve someone else’s income can be …. We also evaluate the violation of consistency of the axioms and estimate the demand functions for altruism towards this … charity, with policy implications related to the optimal design for fundraising strategies. Our results confirm that a …

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …

to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …