Charity with choice

By R. Mark Isaac, Doug Norton

Subjects: Collecte de fonds, Associations sans but lucratif, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, General, Business & Economics, Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations, Economic statistics, Social Science, Investments & Securities, Charities, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities, Aspect économique, Fund raising, Economic aspects, Nonprofit organizations, Welfare economics, Finances, Finance

Description: Four years ago Research in Experimental Economics published experimental evidence on fundraising and charitable contributions. This volume returns to the intrigue with philanthropy. Employing a mixture of laboratory and field experiments as well as theoretical research we present this new volume, "Charity with Choice". New waves of experiments are taking advantage of well calibrated environments established by past efforts to add new features to experiments such as endogeneity and self-selection. Adventurous new research programs are popping up and some of them are captured here in this volume. Among the major themes in which the tools of choice, endogeneity, and self-selection are employed are 1) What increases or decreases charitable activity? and 2) How do organizational and managerial issues affect the performance of non-profit organizations?