An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck

Ronen Bar-El; Limor Hatsor; Avichai Snir

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102381

An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck

Ronen Bar-El, Limor Hatsor, Avichai Snir

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We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to help the beneficiary increases the average donation. Giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck decreases the average donation. We find that in our setting, the latter effect dominates.

Original language	English
Article number	102381
Journal	European Journal of Political Economy
Volume	84
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102381
State	Published - Sep 2024

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Keywords

Behavior
Charity
Donations
Experiment
Expressive
Fundraising
Lottery

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