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RESEARCH PRODUCT
"Facta non verba" : an experiment on pledging and giving
Gilles GrolleauAngela SutanRadu VranceanuGuillermo Mateusubject
Economics and EconometricsSociology and Political Sciencecharitable givingEndowmentmedia_common.quotation_subject050109 social psychologyMonetary economicsjel:D64Pledgejel:D03Dictator gameState (polity)Political sciencedictator game0502 economics and businessEconomics0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesStatistical dispersionJEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C9 - Design of Experiments/C.C9.C91 - Laboratory Individual BehaviorJEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D6 - Welfare Economics/D.D6.D64 - Altruism • Philanthropy050207 economicsApplied PsychologyPledgemedia_commonLaw and economicsjel:C91business.industryCommunication05 social sciencesCharity givingPublic relations[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceCharity givingPledgeCommitmentCommunicationExperimentsCommitmentDonation[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administrationbusinessExperimentsJEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D0 - General/D.D0.D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying PrinciplesCharity giving; Pledge; Commitment; Communication; ExperimentsJEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D0 - Generaldescription
International audience; We design an experiment to investigate whether asking people to state how much they will donate to a charity (i.e., to pledge) increases their actual donation. Individuals’ endowment is either certain or a random variable. We study different types of pledges, namely, private, public and irrevocable, which differ in terms of the cost to the individual for not keeping the promise. We show that in absence of endowment uncertainty, private and public pledges are associated with lower donations as compared to donations in the no-pledge case: private pledges slightly reduce donations and public pledges reduce them more significantly. Donations increase with uncertainty (in terms of increased endowment dispersion) for both private and public pledge situations, although donations with private pledges remain higher than donations with public pledge.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-18 |