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When Income Depends on Performance and Luck: The Effects of Culture and Information on Giving
(2017-01)
We study how giving depends on income and luck, and how culture and
information about the determinants of others’ income affect this relationship. Our
data come from an experiment conducted in two countries, the US and ...
Behavioral Sources of the Demand for Carbon Offsets: An Experimental Study
(2017-03)
Voluntary carbon offset schemes have sprung up in the last decade offering individuals opportunities to neutralize their own carbon footprint. These schemes strongly appeal to the personal responsibility of individuals in ...
Independent vs. Collaborative Fundraising: Understanding the Role of Information
(2019-02)
We use “real donation” laboratory experiments to compare independent fundraising, where donation requests from different charities arrive sequentially to potential donors, with collaborative fundraising, where donation ...
The Impact of Taxes and Wasteful Government Spending on Giving
(2020-05)
We examine how taxes impact charitable giving and how this relationship is affected by the degree of wasteful government spending. In our model, individuals make donations to charities knowing that the government collects ...