High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110032
Author(s):  
Mackenzie Alston ◽  
Catherine Eckel ◽  
Jonathan Meer ◽  
Wei Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
High Income ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Matching Grants

How can charities solicit high-capacity donors to provide the funds for matching grants and leadership gifts? In conjunction with Texas A&M University’s fundraising organizations, we conducted a field experiment to study whether high-income donors respond to nonpersonal solicitations. We also designed the experiment to test the impact of allowing for directed giving on the giving behavior of high-income donors and their willingness to direct their donations toward overhead costs. High-income donors are not responsive to letters or emails, regardless of whether they have the option to direct giving; we cannot conclude, therefore, that giving behavior is different for those who could direct giving compared with those who could not. Our results highlight the difficulties of motivating some high-income donors, especially when only impersonal communication is used.

A field experiment on the impact of a prior donor’s social status on subsequent charitable giving

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Ebeling ◽  
Christoph Feldhaus ◽  
Johannes Fendrich
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaan R Soetevent
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Debit Card ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitable giving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondents can donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-à-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces cash, participation drops by 87 percent. Conditional on participation, donors in the Debit-only treatment give more than donors in Cash-only. In Cash&Debit, almost all donors prefer cash; participation decreases compared to Cash-only. Physical attractiveness of both female and male solicitors increases contributions. Solicitor self-confidence has a negative impact. (JEL D14, D64, L31)

scholarly journals Three doors anomaly, “should I stay, or should I go”: an artefactual field experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Morone ◽  
Rocco Caferra ◽  
Alessia Casamassima ◽  
Alessandro Cascavilla ◽  
Paola Tiranzoni
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Bayesian Updating ◽  
Anomalous Behavior ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Illusion Of Control ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Status Quo Bias ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis work aims to identify and quantify the biases behind the anomalous behavior of people when they deal with the Three Doors dilemma, which is a really simple but counterintuitive game. Carrying out an artefactual field experiment and proposing eight different treatments to isolate the anomalies, we provide new interesting experimental evidence on the reasons why subjects fail to take the optimal decision. According to the experimental results, we are able to quantify the size and the impact of three main biases that explain the anomalous behavior of participants: Bayesian updating, illusion of control and status quo bias.

Behavioural interventions yield electricity savings among high-income households in Johannesburg, South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 0958305X2110443
Author(s):  
Stephanie P Williams ◽  
Gladman Thondhlana ◽  
Harn Wei Kua
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
High Income ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Behavioural Interventions ◽  
Electricity Use ◽  
Size Number ◽  
Electricity Saving ◽  
The Impact

The societal benefits of addressing wasteful electricity use practices through behavioural interventions are now well-established. Surprisingly, in South Africa, where the economy is highly dependent on fossil fuel (coal) for electricity generation, this subject remains little studied and understood. The residential sector is a major electricity consumer, and high-income households, in particular, use a substantial proportion of total electricity with serious adverse impacts on grid stability and the environment, which can disproportionately affect the poor. Using a field-based experiment, this study examines the impact of behavioural interventions on household electricity savings and the determinants of success among high-income households in Johannesburg, South Africa. Over the intervention period, households exposed to a combination of electricity-saving information, frequent reminders and feedback on monthly electricity-saving performance showed mean electricity savings of about 1.5%, ranging from 2% to 4% of electricity, while households in the control group showed increased electricity consumption by approximately 11%. Out of all the demographic and personal value factors considered, age, achievement and benevolence promoted electricity savings, while household size, number of rooms, baseline electricity consumption and security inhibited savings. The findings empirically validate the impact of behavioural interventions on, and the positive influence of, personal values in promoting participation in electricity-saving actions within households.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on the Delivery of Critical Health Care: Experience From a Non–High-Income Country

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 473-475
Author(s):  
Thirunavukarasu Kumanan ◽  
Chrishanthi Rajasooriyar ◽  
Mahesan Guruparan ◽  
Nadarajah Sreeharan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
High Income ◽  
Income Country ◽  
High Income Country ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
Health Care Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Critical Health Care
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