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

charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field experiment with over 180,000 clients of a micro-lending company in Kyrgyzstan …

threshold matching can induce crowding in if appropriately personalized. In a field experiment, we explore how thresholds should … a fundraising call …

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 … inform fundraising choices …

In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared … contribution framing responded more strongly to reward thresholds and suggestions. An additional survey experiment on MTurk …

Some companies engage in mass fundraising in addition to their core business. Via a corporate social responsibility … (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, ask avoidance, if present, could imply that fundraising activities may harm …

We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over … policy to evaluate effectiveness. The best-guess incentives in our initial field experiment turned out to be ineffective at …

-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 yields further …

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 …