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

Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez and Peter Martinsson

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 114, issue 2, 182-185

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Donation; Natural field experiment; Reciprocity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D10 D60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.10.008

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