Paying the price of sweetening your donation: Evidence from a natural field experiment

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1 January 2012

We add a gift in appreciation of the subject’s contribution to a social reference treatment successfully proven to trigger higher donations, and find that the share of people contributing decreases significantly, thereby eroding the original treatment’s capacity to increase donations.

 

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Publication | 10 February 2012