interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the "hidden costs" of conditional incentives … to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …

interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of … study within this genre that has sparked interest and debate revolves around the “hidden costs” of certain incentives, such …-occurring environment in a series of temporally-linked field experiments to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and to …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

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 … schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …