We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how …

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how …

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro …-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …

We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in … fundraising ; natural field experiment … opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly …

bigger lead gift for raising smaller contribu-tions in a fundraising campaign? To answer these questions, we present a novel … matching method, some simple theoretical considerations, and evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment on charitable …

large-scale natural field experiment and a laboratory experiment. Similar to findings in the literature, conventional … matching for the same project results in partial crowding out in the field experiment and, as predicted, crowding out is … reduced under the novel matching scheme. The lab experiment provides more fine-tuned evidence for the change in crowding and …

presents some tentative first evidence from a natural field experiment to shed light on how different types of potential donors …: individuals, corporates and aristocratically titled individuals, respond to the same fundraising drive. Each donor type was …

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 …