We test how donors respond to new information about a charity’s effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program’s impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used for both treatment and control, included a standard qualitative story about an individual beneficiary. ...

Abstract Corporations have recently started incorporating employees’ prosocial preferences into their incentive schemes, including charitable donations (corporate giving). These are mainly discussed in conjunction with the external effects of a firm’s CSR strategy. However, this experiment examines effect on internal firm operations. Specifically, we investigate whether presence and structure c...

stress management for preoperative patients     v. tayebi [1]     abstract     introduction: sugary, regardless of its kind and severity, is a major stress situation for any patient. although, several articles have been published on mentally preparation for surgery, there is still very little knowledge about that.   results: prevention of heavy complications due to preoperative stress, needed t...

We develop a simple theory and conduct a laboratory experiment to explore the e↵ect of information about charities’ performances and its public visibility on the intensive margins of charitable giving (i.e. existing donors). In our model existing donors with di↵erent preferences for giving treat their donations as either complements or (imperfect) substitutes to the quality of the charity. Grea...