Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Carlo Gallier, Timo Goeschl, Martin Kesternich, Johannes Lohse, Christiane Reif and Daniel Römer

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, vol. 216, issue C, 457-468

Abstract: We study spatially differentiated competition between charities in a framed field experiment. We introduce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities’ location such that each donor faces a socially close ‘home’ and a socially distant ‘away’ charity. In our field setting, we observe spatially differentiated competition between charities offering the same good to be characterized by sorting, crowding-in, and an absence of spill-overs: Donors sort themselves by distance; fundraising (through matching) for one charity raises checkbook giving to that charity, irrespective of spatial distance; but checkbook giving to the unmatched charity is not affected.

Keywords: Altruism; Public goods; Charitable giving; Social distance; Framed field experiment; Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D7 H4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Working Paper: Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and splillovers (2019)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.10.013

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