Does Online Salience Predict Charitable Giving? Evidence from SMS Text Donations

Carlo Perroni, Kimberley Ann Scharf, Oleksandr Talavera () and Ngoc Dieu Linh Vi

No 9436, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities’ mission statements. The results suggest that an increase in the online salience of the activities pursued by different charities affects the number and volume of donations made to those charities and to charities that pursue different goals. We uncover evidence of positive “own-salience” effects and negative “cross-salience” effects on donations.

Keywords: charitable donations; online search; news shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D64 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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