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Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …
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We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of …
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a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic discrimination from a field experiment in the Swedish housing market to re …
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of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on a field experiment in a lunch restaurant and our results imply that … on the menu, does not impact sales of the healthy labelled meal in our experiment. We conclude that supplying tasty …
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by this finding, I conduct an intertemporal donation experiment to closely investigate this moderation effect. I design … an experiment that mimics a telephone fundraiser and vary both the timing of the donation (immediate vs. delayed) and the …
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We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This...
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We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
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This paper deals with a core-equilibrium equivalence in an economy with public goods where preferences of consumers display warm glow effects. We demonstrate that provided that each consumer becomes satiated to other consumers provision, it holds that, for a sufficiently large economy, the set...
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Some philosophers and social scientists have stressed the importance for good government of an altruistic citizenry that values the well being of one another. Others have emphasized the need for incentives that induce even the self interested to contribute to the public good. Implicitly most...
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