Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

By Dean S. Karlan, Margaret McConnell. 2014

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Fundraising through online social networks: A field experiment on peer-to-peer solicitation (2014, unknown): “” Related work has been conducted by Andreoni and Bernheim (2009), who examine audience effects on donation decisions, and by Karlan and McConnell (2012), who test for reputation effects on decision-making using giving circles.”
The effect of effectiveness: Donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment (2017, background): “For example, subjects may want to signal a meritorious motive to themselves or others ( Bodner and Prelec 2003; Bénabou and Tirole 2006; Karlan and McConnell 2014 ).”
On the Psychology of Scarcity: When Reminders of Resource Scarcity Promote Selfish (and Generous) Behavior (2015, result): “Certain prior findings have shown that charitable giving increases when one’s behavior is publically observable (Ariely, Bracha, and Meier 2009; Karlan and McConnell 2014), a finding that appears to be in contrast with our results.”
When public recognition for charitable giving backfires: The role of independent self-construal (2018, methodology): “Indeed, past research suggests that public recognition can motivate charitable giving (Fisher and Ackerman 1998; Karlan and McConnell 2014; White and Peloza 2009) particularly because it acts as a symbolic reward, allowing the individual to present 1 While charitable acts can also be privately…”
Why We Cooperate (2014, background): “Reputation systems have also been show to promote cooperation outside the laboratory: blood donation (Lacetera & Macis, 2010) and giving to charity (Karlan & McConnell, 2012) increase when donors’ names are published, and people are three times as likely to sign up for an energy blackout reduction…”
No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery (2014, background): “34SFH representatives’ records from monthly visits indicate that, on average, the thermometer was publicly displayed in 43 percent of the star treatment salons and the literature on charitable giving provides evidence that donations are larger when they are visible to others (Soetevent 2005; Karlan ”