Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

By Dean S. Karlan, John A. List. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Multiple hypothesis testing in experimental economics (2019, methodology): “Section 4 demonstrates various applications of our methodology to the large-scale natural field experiment discussed in Karlan and List (2007).”
Goal gradient in helping behavior (2013, background): “People are more likely to donate when their donation amount is matched by an outside source, allowing the original gift to feel more substantial (Karlan & List, 2007).”
What's the right thing to do? Increasing pro-sociality with simple moral nudges (2017, neutral): “Prisoner’s Dilemma cooperation (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) nudged 0.”
Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score (2011, positive): “In the first example, a charitable fundraising experiment (Karlan and List 2007), we find significant efficiency gains from employing our adaptive treatment assignment rule.”
Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment (2011, neutral): “We see our paper as complementary to field experiments, which typically meet all desiderata except the third (Frey and Meier, 2004; Croson and Shang, 2009; Landry et al., 2006; Falk, 2007; Karlan and List, 2007; Eckel and Grossman, 2008; DellaVigna et al., 2009; List and Price, 2009; Meer, 2009).”
Innovation for Inclusive Growth: Towards a Theoretical Framework and a Research Agenda (2012, background): “Field experiments such as those currently popular within the development economics field (see Banerjee and Duflo, 2011; Karlan and List, 2007) provide a powerful means of testing causality in the relationships between actions of firms and responses of consumers.”
Field Experiments in Economics: the Past, the Present, and the Future (2008, neutral): “Karlan and List ( 2007 ) extend this line of inquiry by soliciting contributions from more than 50 , 000 supporters of a liberal organization , They randomize the subjects into several different groups to explore whether upfront monies used as matching funds promotes giving .”
The Development and Validation of the Motives to Donate Scale (2018, result): “Although our studies concur with prior research finding that tax benefits are not the primary reason for donating (Steinberg, 1990), research has found that donors are influenced when the price to donate decreases (Auten, Sieg, & Clotfelter, 2002; Karlan & List, 2007).”
Prosocial Goal Pursuit in Crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter (2019, neutral): “For example, people donate more money to a cause when they are informed that their donation will be matched by a third party, which could be because matching increases the actual impact people can make by donating (Karlan and List 2007).”
Choose wisely: Crowdfunding through the stages of the startup life cycle (2017, background): “This practice makes the project appear more relatable (Kolenda, 2016), which has been shown as a success factor in charitable giving and donations (Karlan & List, 2007; Leonhardt, 2008).”