Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity

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This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces cash, participation drops by 87 percent.Conditional on participation, donors in the Debit-only treatment givemore than donors in Cash-only. In Cash&Debit, almost all donorsprefer cash; participation decreases compared to Cash-only. Physicalattractiveness of both female and male solicitors increases contributions. Solicitor self-confidence has a negative impact.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 09-015/1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Field Experiments ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Public Goods ; Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
• Subject: Payment choice ; field experiment ; image motivation ; Fundraising ; Altruismus ; Privater Haushalt ; Motivation ; Reputation ; Test

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Soetevent, Adriaan R.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86800
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET