Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment

By Stephan Meier. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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What's the right thing to do? Increasing pro-sociality with simple moral nudges (2017, unknown): “…in exchange to a prosocial action (Ashraf, Bandiera & Jack, 2014; Yoeli et al, 2013); augmenting donations using matching (Rondeau & List, 2008; Meier, 2007); making people’s actions observable by others (Ekström, 2012; Ernest-Jones, Nettle & Bateson, 2011); informing people about the actions…”
Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment (2010, background): “…matching schemes might be that the same organization is typically not observed experimenting with different fundraising schemes and thus 22In addition, there is some evidence that matching schemes might become less effective over time as donors are given repeated opportunities to give [Meier 2007].”
Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-Up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving (2009, background): “The working paper version of this study (Saez 2007) analyzes the interactions between the two experiments and finds modest interactions.”
Prosocial Behavior in Intergroup Relations: How Donor Self-Construal and Recipient Group-Membership Shape Generosity (2014, background): “To this effect, studies have shown that donations may actually decrease if donors are given a gift (Falk 2007), if someone matches their donation (Meier 2007), or if the benefits to the self are overly explicit (Fisher et al. 2008; White and Peloza 2009).”
The Psychology of Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims and Beyond (2015, background): “nomic field experiments (Meier, 2007) support the existence of a crowding-out effect.”
Warm glow, information, and inefficient charitable giving (2011, background): “Karlan and List (2007) and Meier (2007) provide evidence from eld experiments that donors are responsive to the price of their gifts in terms of matching rates.”
A Review and Framework for Thinking about the Drivers of Prosocial Consumer Behavior (2020, background): “…important to note that sometimes monetary incentives have unintended consequences because they can crowd out motivations to engage in the prosocial action (Gneezy and Rustichini 2000b; Meier 2007; Ariely et al. 2009; Gneezy, Meier, and Rey-Biel 2011; Barasch et al. 2016; Giebelhausen et al. 2016).”
Conscience Accounting: Emotional Dynamics and Social Behavior (2012, unknown): “Consistent with conscience accounting, of those who returned the extra money in the Mistake treatment, 27% (9) made a donation, whereas 64% (30) of those who did not return the extra money made a donation (Z=3.”
Small matches and charitable giving: Evidence from a natural field experiment (2011, result): “This result is counter to Meier (2007), which found an increased giving during the matching period countered by a reduction after the matching offer ended.”
No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery (2014, background): “Our findings contribute to the broad literature evaluating the effect of incentives in for-profit firms and to the nascent literature studying how to motivate agents engaged in pro-social activities (see, for example, Gneezy and Rustichini, 2000; Lacetera et al., 2011; Meier, 2007; Mellström and Joh”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “Our review also differs from that of the overviews of economic theories of giving by Andreoni (2006), Vesterlund (2006), and Meier (2007b).”
Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior (2009, background): “Two investigations that explored the impact of matching donations – in which an employer or other agency matches the amount of one’s donation to some charity – showed that matching did increase people’s likelihood of contributing (Karlan & List, 2007; Meier, 2007).”