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...

Three studies examined the relationship between social dominance orientation (SDO), the experience of moral elevation, and Whites' donations to charitable organizations. Study 1 used video clips depicting acts of moral excellence to elicit a state of moral elevation (a distinctive feeling of warmth and expansion, which is accompanied by admiration, affection, and even love for people whose exem...

BACKGROUND In China, children from low-income families, particularly those of rural to urban migrant families, have become one of the most vulnerable populations in terms of healthcare access. Without support, these families will finally give up treatment for their children. Our hospital has sought several ways to fund the uncompensated care for children without insurance or from low-income fam...