This study develops theory and conducts an experiment to provide an understanding of why people initially give to …

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising … experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering … economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate … incentives, combining all of these effects, positively and significantly increased donations, ignoring individuals who took …

experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism …

Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University … theories, we conduct a laboratory experiment with undergraduates, and find no evidence to support the alternative, altruistic …

spending crowds out the charity that ensues from these forces only modestly. Moreover, people's donations tend to rise when …

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal … attention. For their part, economists have recently explored how communication affects empathy, altruism, and giving rates to …

This study develops theory and uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to explore the economics of charity. We … side of charitable fundraising. Empirical results are in line with our theory: in gross terms, our lottery treatments …

This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …