Microgiving, a new form of digital fundraising, operates by soliciting minuscule, recurring donations from large … numbers of potential donors. We evaluate a charity subscription program operated by Alibaba, China's largest retail platform …, which allows sellers to pledge a tiny portion of a product's revenue (2 cents per order) to charity, with donations made …

riding. There is also a general gap in the current literature on Islamic economics that the issues of zakat and charity have … show how zakat can function as a unique solution to the free-rider problem in voluntary charity. The author's argument is … to this problem. The author also uses game theory to show how reputation can lead to cooperation in a repeated game. The …

implement the laws and how the Chinese people respond to them, leading to a system of charity, but one with Chinese …

We develop a simple theory which formally describes how charities can resolve the information asymmetry problems faced …-scale natural field experiments. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from prior … the second field experiment, the same charity sent direct mail solicitations to individuals who had not previously donated …

-tax payers. We study the impact of this on giving. Basic theory and our empirical results suggest heterogeneous effects for …