Preference for Anonymous Giving

Factors Influencing User Motivation for Giving Online Preference Feedback

Preference elicitation is important for any computerized system advising users about choices. Recommender systems aim to propose interesting material to users. Therefore, they must first gather user preferences. Negotiation support systems can only give meaningful bidding advice based on users’ preferences regarding negotiable issues and interests. In general, the more detail users are willing ...

Anonymous Giving as a Vice: An Application of Image Motivation

While some donors boast about their giving, others give anonymously. A novel feature of this paper is that anonymity is endogenously controlled by donors themselves, not exogenously controlled by fundraisers. Is anonymous giving really a virtue, as is generally recognised? Paradoxically, this paper proves that anonymity is a vice for fundraisers even if it is what donors desire. If many altruis...

On giving preference to prior volunteers when allocating organs for transplantation.

In this issue of the journal Rupert Jarvis argues for a simple idea-a 'modest proposal'-that he believes will radically increase the supply of organs for trans-plantation (1). Given the existing shortage of donor organs for transplantation it would be entirely just, he reasons, for our society to give priority for receipt of organs for transplantation to those patients who had previously volunt...

Testing motives for charitable giving: A revealed-preference methodology with experimental evidence

Uniform generation of anonymous and neutral preference profiles for social choice rules

The Impartial Anonymous and Neutral Culture (IANC) model of social choice assumes that the names of the voters as well as the identity of the alternatives are immaterial. This models allows for comparison of structural properties social choice rules (SCRs) for large values of the parameters empirically: whether Condorcet winners exist, whether Borda and Condorcet winners are identical, whether ...