"The Second Edition of Fundraising: Principles and Practice by best-selling author Michael Worth offers an updated comprehensive introduction to fundraising that focuses on both theory and practice. The text is designed to engage students in thinking critically about issues in fundraising and...

Employment contracts are often incomplete, leaving many responsibilities subject to workers’ discretion. High work morale is therefore essential for sustaining voluntary cooperation and high productivity in firms. We conducted a field experiment to test whether workers reciprocate wage cuts...

This paper explores the role of charities in closing the gaps in information and incentives between donors and recipients at anti-hunger charities. When food insecurity rises by one percentage point, the average charity increases fundraising by roughly 0.9%. However, food insecurity reduces...

Does wealth make people more generous? While this question has been at the center stage of the research on charitable giving, causal evidence is lacking. We offer winners and losers of a large Ethiopian housing lottery the opportunity to give to charities. Winners experience a very large...

A large literature in public economics seeks to answer whether government activity crowds out charitable donations, but the empirical evidence is mixed. To resolve this inconsistency, we consider that people base their donation decisions not only on government spending per se, but also on their...

In this paper, we argue that studying recession events through the shapes observed in subsequences of GDP data can help to avoid methodological complications and offer new insights to traditional inquiries. With a set of 147 recession events from 77 countries, we analyze whether the shape of the...

We experimentally examine whether ranking employees on a social dimension can help them learn something about their self-concept and can foster better ethical decisions afterwards. We examine this question in the context of popular employee-giving programs, whereby proponents argue that such...

We examine the degree of complementarity or substitutability of donations of time and money. Utilizing data on volunteering from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics that spans 2001-2019, we estimate the impact of recent changes in the after-tax price of giving on the amount of volunteering (both...