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Can You Spare Some Change For Charity? Experimental Evidence On Verbal Cues And Loose Change Effects In A Dictator Game
There is some evidence from field studies and natural experiments that levels of charitable donation depend on the method in which donations are solicited. There is also some experimental evidence that spending on private ...
Developing countries in need: Which characteristics appeal most to people when donating money?
A discrete choice experiment was conducted to discover the relative importance of five characteristics of developing countries, as suggested by the literature, considered by people when choosing countries to donate money ...
Transaction Costs, the Opportunity Cost of Time and Inertia in Charitable Giving
We conduct a laboratory experiment to analyze the effect transactions costs and inertia have on charitable giving. We conjecture that transaction costs will have a greater effect on donations if the solicitation is received ...
What Sort of People Vote Expressively
Using a survey and an experiment, we identify the personal characteristics associated with the difference between an individual’s giving to charity and her vote in a referendum on charitable giving. Under certain circumstances, ...
Deadlines, Procrastination, and Inattention in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either ...
Bilateral foreign aid: How important is aid effectiveness to people for choosing countries to support?
We conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to determine how important aid effectiveness is to people relative to other criteria for choosing countries to support with bilateral foreign aid. We find that aid effectiveness ...
Alcohol Expenditure, Generosity and Empathy
Existing studies suggest that alcohol dependency (or recovery from alcohol dependency) is associated with lower levels of empathy and generosity. We present results from a charitable donation experiment which shows that ...
Does Charity Begin at Home or Overseas?
We conduct a field experiment to analyse whether a representative sample of the population has a preference for giving money to an international development charity or to a charity helping families in need in the home ...
Dire Straits v The Cure: Emphasising the Problem or the Solution in Charitable Fundraising for International Development
We conduct a laboratory experiment to test the effect on charitable donations to international development NGOs (INGOs) of emphasising current deprivation in a developing country, versus emphasising the potential good a ...
When does it matter how you ask? Cross-subject heterogeneity in framing effects in a charitable donation experiment
In this paper we present results from an experiment that draws on insights from economics on different possible incentives for generosity and insights from social psychology on different possible personality types. Firstly, ...