The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study

James Murphy, Nomin Batmunkh, Benjamin Nilsson and Samantha Ray

A chapter in Replication in Experimental Economics, 2015, vol. 18, pp 41-50 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, but foundnoevidence that social information affected donation decisions. However, most of our donors were renewing members, a group which Shang and Croson also found was not influenced by social information.

Keywords: Charitable giving; field experiment; philanthropy; public goods; social information; social comparison; C93; D64; H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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