the first year of our field experiment, we vary whether or not potential donors are informed that the ask will be repeated … experiment we show that previous non-donors behave as if expecting future calls, regardless of whether they have been explicitly …

the first year of our field experiment, we vary whether or not potential donors are informed that the ask will be repeated … experiment we show that previous non-donors behave as if expecting future calls, regardless of whether they have been explicitly …

. In a field experiment, employees of large Albanian companies were asked to donate to projects administered by Down …

This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled field experiment. We match the … socially inclined to react to the matching mechanism. The field experiment provides some evidence suggesting that the matching …

We study a form of threshold matching in fundraising where donations above a certain threshold are topped up with a … experiment, we explore how thresholds should be chosen depending on past donations. The optimal choice of thresholds is rather … threshold that applies to all recipients of a fundraising call. …

-month large-scale field experiment and a fifteen-month follow-up period, involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine … offer of a lottery ticket, on average, increases the probability to donate blood during the experiment by 5.6 percentage … reduction in donations is observed after the experiment. …

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 …

solicitations by paid workers. To explore whether this belief has merit, we conduct a door-to-door fundraising experiment in which … solicitors communicate their compensation status to households. In our experiment, we vary (1) whether solicitors are paid or not … forecasts of fundraising professionals, who believe that information that solicitors are volunteers will raise more money than …

Calling to thank donors is a key fundraising strategy in the non-profit sector. Yet the effectiveness of these calls … contrast to the incentivized forecasts of fundraising professionals and the general public, who anticipated that calls would …