altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, e.g., due to social pressure. We design a … door-to-door fund-raising drive in which some households are informed about the exact time of solicitation with a flyer on … important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …

altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, e.g., due to social pressure. We design a … door-to-door fund-raising drive in which some households are informed about the exact time of solicitation with a flyer on … important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …

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

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …