The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

By John A. List, David Lucking-Reiley. Journal of Political Economy, 2002

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Anonymity in Giving in a Natural Context : A Field Experiment in 30 Churches (2005, background): “List and Lucking-Reiley (2002) report the positive effect of publicly announcing amounts of dseed moneyT, indicating that individuals take the amount already given by others into account in making their own contribution decision.”
Goal gradient in helping behavior (2013, background): “…that the charity was 10% of the way toward the goal, another condition informed potential donors that the charity was 66% of the way toward the goal, and a third condition informed potential donors that the charity was 85% of the way toward achieving its goal (cf. List & Lucking-Reiley, 2002).”
Conditional cooperation: Behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications (2006, background): “Seed money effects are a related phenomenon that at least in part exploits the psychology of conditional cooperation (List and Lucking-Reiley 2002).”
From intention to action: Can nudges help consumers to choose renewable energy? (2014, background): “Furthermore, evidence from field experiments has shown that an upfront lead donation increases the contributions of potential donors by a staggering 44–300%, with neutral or positive effects on the response rates (Huck and Rasul, 2007; List and Lucking-Reiley, 2002).”
Gift Exchange in the Field (2007, background): “In a related field experiment on charitable giving, List and Lucking-Reiley (2002)”
Leadership giving in charitable fund-raising (2006, background): “List and Lucking-Reiley (2002) provide evidence from a field experiment showing that leadership gifts, which they call seed grants, have a major effect on donations.”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “…is a likely explanation for the effects of leadership donations and seed money that have been studied extensively by economists (Andreoni & Petrie, 2004; Bac & Bag, 2003; Chen et al., 2006; Landry et al., 2006; List & Lucking-Reiley, 2002; List & Rondeau, 2003; Potters, Sefton, & Vesterlund, 2005).”
Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments (2007, background): “If well-known persons donate to a certain project and this is publicly announced, others often tend to follow (Vesterlund, 2003).1 A similar effect arises when at the start of a public fundraising campaign a notable fraction of the goal is pledged as seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley, 2002).”
The Economics of Museums (2003, background): “Second, it may be that 2 2 Many studies show that grants which match donations increase willingness to donate (see further Chapter 35 by Netzer and Chapter 36 by Schuster in this volume); see also List and Lucking-Reiley (2002) and Ribar and Wilhelm (2002).”
Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters (2016, methodology): “• Social connectedness (Sij): To measure the strength of the social connection between i and j, we calculate Sij in two ways: first, following Marmaros and Sacerdote (2006) we count the total number of nonmonetary interactions (phone calls and text messages) between i and j in a 3-month window.”