fundraising interventions ranging from soft to hard paternalism. Our design allows us to decompose spillover effects into a pure … willing to give to charity thereafter compared to participants whose initial pro-social behavior is incentivized by monetary …

amount (e.g. "give at least $25 and the charity receives a $25 match"). Responses are used to structurally estimate a model … incentive schemes, taking into account the goals of the charity and donor preferences. Two of these optimal incentives were … predicted by theory and our simulations. Our findings highlight the pitfalls of relying on a particular parameterization of a …

the nudge and the nudger) and behavior in a charity giving context. The results show that while the default nudge was …

A popular fundraising tool is donation matching, where every dollar is matched by a third party. But field experiments … exhaust the matching funds, so their donation is not pivotal to obtaining matching funds. We develop a theory of how beliefs … about peers' donations affect one's own likelihood of donation. We test our theory using novel "threshold match" treatments …

designed to evaluate not only the effectiveness of a default manipulation on decision making in a charity giving context, but …

recent continuous modal donations increases. We discuss that our findings connect economic studies of charity and social … psychology studies of conformity and could aid effective fundraising by charities. …

mostly do not follow through. Our theory shows that having people to formally state the intended amount may alleviate this …

their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly …Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study …