- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 9
- Charitable giving a...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 18. November 2015
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2015-021
- Schlagwort(e)
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altruism
charitable giving
charitable institutions
intermediation
moral judgement reasoning
price elasticity
- Zusammenfsg.
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Charitable donations are often made through intermediaries who can fund themselves from these same donations. Donors who purchase charitable output through an intermediary incur a principal-agent problem with unobservable prices. We compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without intermediation. Different donor types emerge: 41 per-cent of all donors reduce their donation in response to intermediation, 59 per-cent of all donors give as much or more with than without intermediation. The price of charitable output does not explain these types and appears to only matter after taking characteristics of donors’ moral judgement into account.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D64 - Altruism ; L31 - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs