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Do beliefs about peers matter for donation matching? : experiments in the field and laboratory
Gee, Laura K.; Schreck, Michael J. - 2017
exhaust the matching funds, so their donation is not pivotal to obtaining matching funds. We develop a theory of how beliefs … and further show that beliefs about peers' donations matter. Our theoretical, lab, and field results combined suggest … people are more likely to donate when they believe they are more pivotal to securing matching money. Beliefs about others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724508
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502690
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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386444
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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study
Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Ben; Ray, … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262875
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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study
Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Benjamin; … - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2015
Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264945
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Optimal incentives to give
Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan - 2020
We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over 112,000 unique individuals. The price of giving is varied by offering a fixed match if the donation meets a threshold amount (e.g. "give at least $25 and the charity receives a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231620
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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
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Oxytocin, empathy, altruism and charitable giving : experimental evidence from blood donations
Jukić, Irena; Kovač, Dejan; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We conducted a field experiment in the natural setting of blood donations to test how oxytocin relates to empathy and altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to induce different levels of empathy by showing a...
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Giving in a large economy : price vs. non-price effects in a field experiment
Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo - 2011
We conduct a large-scale field experiment with 2,440 subjects in which we exogenously vary the price of contributing to the closest empirical counterpart of an infinitely large public good, climate change mitigation. We find that the price effect is robust and negative, but quantitatively weak,...
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