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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 …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a …
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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 …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582100
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 …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662717
hypothesized and examined in theory and experiments, the literature is largely silent on the comparison. I report the results of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
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 …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230959
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … inform fundraising choices. …
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Matching schemes, where a party matches the contribution of others, reduce the effective price of a good and aim to foster its demand. We review the empirical literature on the effectiveness of these schemes in the context of public goods, especially in the field of charitable giving. As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764987
Matching schemes, where a party matches the contribution of others, reduce the effective price of a good and aim to foster its demand. We review the empirical literature on the effectiveness of these schemes in the context of public goods, especially in the field of charitable giving. As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876665
An influential result in the literature on charitable giving is that matching subsidies dominate rebate subsidies in raising funds. We investigate whether this result extends to 'unit donation' schemes, a popular alternative form of soliciting donations. There, the donors' choices are about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385386
We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...
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