In the present study, the costly signaling theory (CST) is used to examine the effect of an offer of charity on social recognition. On behalf of a charitable organization, 186 students enrolled in 16 different courses were asked to offer support to unfamiliar persons in need. In accordance with our predictions, the results show that significantly more subjects are willing to give assistance if ...

tary hospital is a charity, and that it deals with two classes of the public?those who support the charity and those who benefit by the charity?the givers and the receivers. And these two classes have been kept apart, at any rate officially. It has always been recognised that the giver gives, not for his own good, but for someone else's, and that the receiver receives because someone else has p...

the islamic economic system, in order to implement justice and prevent the emergence of wide gaps among social classes, prohibits wealth accumulation (iktinaz), and the holy qur'an explicitly promises punishment for it. many fughaha and commentators of the holy qur'an maintain that the forbidden iktinaz only is established by accumulating wealth and avoidance of paying its zakat. howe...

Purpose: The objective of this research was examining and analyzing the factors affecting muzakki (zakat donators) motivation to pay zakat in Zakat Agency, Bandar Lampung. Method: sampling technique used accidental sampling. sample paying data analysis multiple regression. Result: result showed that understanding accountability had a significant effect on zakat; however, level faith financial r...

We report the results of laboratory experiments that examine whether third-party contributions crowd out private giving to charity. Subjects play a single dictator game with a charity as the recipient. The subject chooses his preferred charity from a list. There are four treatment combinations: two initial allocations and two frames. Initial allocations are either US$18 for the subject and US$2...

A cause-related auction is different from a list price setting in two major ways: First, the donation percentage directly affects the price of the item in that consumers’ value for charitable contributions enters their bids. Second, charitable consumers have a price externality on non-charitable consumers, so even a segment of consumers who place a premium on charitable contributions can signif...

OBJECTIVES To study patients' belief and practice about Sadqa (charity) and its role in recovery from illness and restoration of health. This study will determine whether such belief and practice is related to any demographic factors such as sex, education, and religious sects. METHODS A questionnaire was designed that included the demographic profile of patients and questions in accordance t...