you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …

rebate for the donor or as a matched payment to the receiving charity. On accounting grounds these two are equivalent but, in …

Evidence suggests that donors have little demand for information before giving to charity. To understand this behavior … value of charity. We observe that an individual who considers giving less is less likely to become informed; and indeed, an … grant to the charity causes severe crowding-out by discouraging information acquisition, a matching grant increases …

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 …

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …