A Field Experiment in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

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A Review and Taxonomy of Choice Architecture Techniques (2016, background): “Contributions to charity (Shang & Croson, 2009), environmental protection behaviors (Cialdini, 2003), and voting in elections (Bond et al., 2012; Gerber & Rogers, 2009) are also influenced by social norms.”
Can Sustainable Investing Save the World? Reviewing the Mechanisms of Investor Impact (2020, background): “Research on charitable giving has shown that potential donors are more likely to give if they learn that others give as well (DellaVigna et al., 2012; Frey & Meier, 2004; Shang & Croson, 2009).”
The short-run and long-run effects of behavioral interventions: Experimental evidence from energy conservation (2014, neutral): “…2010; Levitt, List, and Sadoff 2010; Walton and Cohen 2011), voting (Gerber, Green, and Shachar 2003), charitable donations (Landry et al. 2010; Shang and Croson 2009), job choices (Coffman, Featherstone, and Kessler 2013), labor effort (Gneezy and List 2006), and other choices; see Rogers and…”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, neutral): “Motives affect everything from visual perception (Balcetis & Dunning, 2010; Balcetis & Lassiter, 2010; Bruner, 1957; Bruner & Goodman, 1947) to adaptive and prosocial behaviors (Shang & Croson, 2009; Stone, Aronson, Crain, Winslow, & Fried, 1994).”