The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study

Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation decisions. Most of our donors were renewing members, a group which Shang and Croson also found were not influenced by social information.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Murphy, James J. ; Batmunkh, Nomin ; Nilsson, Ben ; Ray, Samantha
Institutions:	Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of Business and Economics
Subject:	Charitable giving \| field experiment \| philanthropy \| public goods \| social information \| social comparison

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	D64 - Altruism ; H41 - Public Goods ; C93 - Field Experiments
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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