Testing for altruism and social pressure in charitable giving.

By Stefano DellaVigna, John A. List, Ulrike Malmendier. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Can Sustainable Investing Save the World? Reviewing the Mechanisms of Investor Impact (2020, background): “they learn that others give as well (DellaVigna et al., 2012; Frey & Meier, 2004; Shang & Croson, 2009). Whether this mechanism applies in the context of SI, however, has not been investigated. Second, investors pioneering novel investment projects, for example, financing pioneering renewable energy”
Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments (2018, neutral): “Second, we contribute to a growing stream of literature on social preferences in the field (e.g. Frey and Meier 2004; Karlan 2005; Gneezy and List 2006; List 2006; Gneezy et al. 2010; DellaVigna et al. 2012; Stoop et al. 2012; Andreoni et al. 2017; Kessler et al. 2019).”
No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery (2014, background): “the individuals' truly-preferred amounts, because of social pressure (DellaVigna et al., 2012), the measure is still valid for our purposes as long as ranks are preserved so that more motivated agents donate more than agents who are less motivated, even if they all donate more than theywould in the ”
Avoiding the Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving (2017, neutral): “What, if anything, can this behavior tell us about the welfare effects of fundraising? In a related paper, DellaVigna et al. (2011) do a nice job of estimating the welfare implications”
From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms (2020, neutral): “There is growing evidence that individuals care to a large extent about how they are perceived by others and that such concerns might affect important decisions in a variety of settings, from charitable donations (Andreoni and Bernheim, 2009; DellaVigna, List and Malmendier, 2012; Andreoni, Rao and ”
Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving (2015, neutral): “, 2010; Coffman, 2011; Bartling and Fischbacher, 2012), or by avoiding situations that involve giving decisions (Dana et al., 2006; Broberg et al., 2007; Andreoni et al., 2011; Lazear et al., 2012; DellaVigna et al., 2012).”
Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments (2017, neutral): “Although AR discuss welfare consequences of the social costs of responding to the HER, it’s unclear if there is actually a gap between choices and welfare in the case of Opower, as households are free to optout of the mailer (DellaVigna et al., 2012).”