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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019

Some companies engage in mass fundraising - where thousands of recipients are asked to make small donations - in … research uncovered significant "ask avoidance" which, if present, could imply that fundraising activities may harm a company …

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Can religious institutions promote sustainable behavior? : field experimental evidence on donations towards a carbon-offsetting fund

Feldhaus, Christoph; Gleue, Marvin; Löschel, Andreas - 2019

We conduct a field experiment with the visitors of the German Catholic Convention in Münster, Germany. We aim at …

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Voluntary "donations" versus reward-oriented "contributions": two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2020 - Revised April 2020

In an artefactual field experiment we implement a crowdfunding campaign for a club good-an institute's summer party … survey experiment on M-Turk indicates that the term "donation" triggers more positive emotional responses, and that emotions …

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Subsidizing quantity donations : matches, rebates, and discounts compared

Diederich, Johannes; Eckel, Catherine C.; Epperson, Raphael - 2019 - This version: November 22, 2018

We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...

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Payment choice, image motivation and contributions to charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Final version: 04 August, 2010

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment …

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Giving and sorting among friends : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013

Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...

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Giving and sorting among friends : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013

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Nudging generosity : choice architecture and cognitive factors in charitable giving

Schulz, Jonathan F.; Thiemann, Petra; Thöni, Christian - 2017

In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of two different choice architectures on donation decisions. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities; in the control group we do not provide a list. In...

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Evidence from an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients : Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hypothesis

Fong, Christina M. - 2007

This paper investigates the determinants of generosity in an experiment on charity to real-life welfare recipients. It … tests the effects of various measures of unconditional altruism and conditional or reciprocal altruism. The results show … strong support for conditional or reciprocal altruism. However, people who are self-reported unconditional altruists make …

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Altruism in Society : Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters

Mujcic, Redzo - 2013

We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism …

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