The most effective charities are hundreds of times more effective than typical charities, yet
few donors prioritize effectiveness. Why is that? How might we increase the effectiveness of …

We assess how investors' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for sustainable investments responds to
the social impact of those investments, using a framed field experiment. While investors …

Donor behavior and the act of charity have attracted evident attention globally in recent
years primarily because of squeezed government funding to charities and Nonprofit …

Decisions involving charitable giving often occur under the shadow of risk. A common
finding is that potential donors give less when there is greater risk that their donation will …

Abstract The World Bank was founded to address what we would today call imperfections in
international capital markets. Its founders thought that countries would borrow from the Bank …

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 …

Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the
donor's opportunity cost? Previous models of altruism that focus on the overall impact of a …

This experiment examined the effects of fundraising message characteristics on donation
intentions through a simulated social media campaign. A 2 (abstract vs. concrete message)× …

There is an increasing pressure to give more wisely and effectively. There is, relatedly, an
increasing focus on charity performance metrics. Through a series of experiments, this paper …

Many jobs are connected to a prosocial mission—namely, to a social purpose beyond profit
maximization. I use three laboratory experiments to investigate if employers can use the …