We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in … opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly … assigned to treatments designed to explore behavioral responses to linear matching schemes, as well as the mere existence of a …

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities …

for participants claiming warm glow as their primary motivation, its shape is increasing and concave. Nevertheless …

readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce …. While the particular motivation stressed does not have a significant impact, information about tax allowances surprisingly …

This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two … towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …

We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that …