Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving

Arbeitspapier

We study intertemporal crowding between two fundraising campaigns for the same charitable organization by manipulating donors' beliefs about the likelihood of future campaigns in two subsequent field experiments. The data shows that initial giving is decreasing in the likelihood of a future campaign while subsequent giving increases in initial giving. While this refutes the predictions of a simple expected utility model, the pattern is in line with a model that allows for (anticipated or unanticipated) habit formation provided that donations in the two periods are substitutes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 130

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Field Experiments ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
• Thema: Charitable giving ; field experiments ; intertemporal crowding

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Adena, Maja ; Huck, Steffen
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
• (wo): München und Berlin
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/194026
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ