An experiment on Donations, Personal Stories, and Bad Luck

Avichai Snir (), Ronen Bar-El and Limor Hatsor ()
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Avichai Snir: Bar-Ilan University

No 2023-01, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to help the beneficiary increases the average donation. Giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck decreases the average donation. We find that in our setting, the latter effect dominates.

Keywords: Charity; Donations; Experiment; Fundraising; Expressive Behavior; lottery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D64 D91 L31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2023-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-des and nep-exp
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