Moral suasion and charitable giving [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 We investigate the effect of moral suasion on charitable giving. Participants in an online experiment choose between two allocations, one of which includes a donation to a well-known charity organization.
Loukas Balafoutas, Sarah Rezaei
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Another reason for the counterintuitive effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Current studies on the effect of thank-you gifts on charitable giving are primarily based on the conclusion of a milestone paper, “The counterintuitive effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving” which argued that thank-you gifts are mainly driven ...
Zhou Fang +3 more
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Demographic variation in charitable giving and helping across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study [PDF]
Scientific ReportsProsocial behaviors play a vital role in promoting individual and societal well-being. Charitable giving and helping strangers are two important expressions of prosociality; yet we know little about how these behaviors differ across sociodemographic ...
Julia S. Nakamura +7 more
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Meta-analyses on charitable giving clarify evidence for empathic and effective altruism [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsEffective altruists argue that charitable giving is over-influenced by empathic responses and should instead be guided by cost-benefit analyses about the effectiveness of giving.
Matthew J. Hornsey +2 more
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Misuse of charitable giving to finance violent extremism; A futuristic actions study amidst COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2021 The purpose of the study is to explore the shadow economy of violent extremism through charity lenses and factors associated with misuse of charitable giving in a global financial system.
Muhammad Akram, Asim Nasar, Abid Rehman
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Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Questions related to human altruism are often studied through self-reported behavior or by measuring behavior in laboratory experiments. Here, the authors examine real-world prosocial behavior using charitable donations made online.
Matthew R. Sisco, Elke U. Weber
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Predictive models for charitable giving using machine learning techniques. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Private giving represents more than three fourths of all U.S. charitable donations, about 2% of total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Private giving is a significant factor in funding the nonprofit sector of the U.S.
Leily Farrokhvar +2 more
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On Reminder Effects, Drop-Outs and Dominance: Evidence from an Online Experiment on Charitable Giving. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 We present the results of an experiment that (a) shows the usefulness of screening out drop-outs and (b) tests whether different methods of payment and reminder intervals affect charitable giving.
Axel Sonntag, Daniel John Zizzo
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EDIS, 2018 Life is filled with uncertainty and when a disaster or hard times occur often times individuals and families are rendered vulnerable with feelings that include helplessness and confusion.
Lynda M. Spence
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Charitable giving: The role of framing and information. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 We investigate how different levels of information influence the allocation decisions of donors who are entitled to freely distribute a fixed monetary endowment between themselves and a charitable organization in both giving and taking frames. Participants donate significantly higher amounts, when the decision is described as taking rather than giving.
Keser C, Kliemt H, Späth M.
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