Participation of charity beneficiaries

Anecdotal evidence suggests that involving beneficiaries in charity decision-making ensures better governance processes. This paper provides the first experimental test of effects beneficiaries’ participation decision how to spend a charity's funds. We consider four different mechanisms for choosing funds destination: delegating group leader, deciding through public discussion, voting (one-head-one-vote), and weighted voting. effectiveness these an artefactual field experiment South African slum. show entails significantly higher contribution levels with respect control treatment where is exogenous. Contributions are greater when delegates leader discussion both types examine possible implications best practices charities. Overall, our results highlight involvement improves commitment, but depend strictly on form adopted.