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Economics Letters
Volume 79, Issue 2, May 2003, Pages 153-159
 
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The impact of challenge gifts on charitable giving: an experimental investigation

John A. ListE-mail The Corresponding Author, a and Daniel RondeauCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, b

a Agricultural Resource Economics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA b Department of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2

Received 6 May 2002; 
revised 30 July 2002; 
accepted 4 September 2002. ;
Available online 7 January 2003.

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Abstract

Evidence suggests that contributions to capital campaigns increase with the value of leadership gifts. We examine the response of subjects to the announcement of leadership gifts and its implied change in the campaign’s target. The two effects are partitioned.

Author Keywords: Charitable giving; Threshold public goods; Experiments

JEL classification codes: C91 (Laboratory Experiments); H41 (Public Goods)

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Experimental design
3. Experimental results
4. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References

Economics Letters
Volume 79, Issue 2, May 2003, Pages 153-159
 
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