Giving to Secular Causes by the Religious and Nonreligious: An Experimental Test of the Responsiveness of Giving to Subsidies

Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J.

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“…In this work, material costs and benefits are broadly defined as the "tangible consequences that are associated with monetary value" [38]. Clearly, giving money costs money, and previous research finds that giving increases when the costs of a donation are reduced [57,58]. However, the costs of a donation sometimes involve more than just money.…”

Section: Costs and Benefitsmentioning

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Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

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Abstract:As global concern about sustainability, food waste, and poverty increases, there is an urgent need to understand what motivates businesses to adopt pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours. This paper suggests that food redistribution organisations hold both pro-social and pro-environmental aims, due to their concern with reducing food surplus and food insecurity. To achieve this, they must motivate food businesses to donate their surplus food. However, little is known about the values, attitudes, and motives of food industry donors. The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and conceptual overview to set out principles from which empirical data on food redistribution will be analysed or critiqued. Specifically, it explores pro-social and pro-environmental literature, as these fields have examined the motivations behind donations and reducing environmental impact. This review highlights that charitable giving of food is different to other inorganic material, such as money. Thus, future research is needed to capture the unique temporal, emotional, social, and environmental factors that motivate food donations. This information may contribute to the development of strategies that target and motivate people from the food industry to become food donors. Alternatively, it may reveal concerns about food donations, and highlight the need for other approaches to food waste and food insecurity.

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Section: Costs and Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

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“…While self-regarding dictators should give nothing, experimental ones tend to give in the region of 20-30%. Eckel and Grossman (2004) study a DG where 167 U.S. college students were asked to split an endowment of cash between themselves and a non-religious charity they chose from a list under twelve different donation conditions, relating to the size of the endowment as well as rebates and matching funds given by the experimenters. Subjects were classified as either religious or non-religious according to whether they reported to attend religious services regularly.…”

Section: Altruism and Fairnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Experimental Economics of Religion

Hoffmann

2011

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The focus for the Centre is research into individual and strategic decision-making using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods. On the theory side, members of the Centre investigate individual choice under uncertainty, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, as well as theories of psychology, bounded rationality and evolutionary game theory. Members of the Centre have applied experimental methods in the fields of public economics, individual choice under risk and uncertainty, strategic interaction, and the performance of auctions, markets and other economic institutions. Much of the Centre's research involves collaborative projects with researchers from other departments in the UK and overseas. July 2011Abstract This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct economic methods which promise new and different insights. In particular, certain features of the experimental approach as used by economists such as incentive compatibility are particularly appropriate for studying the effect of religion on individual behaviour. The paper discusses results obtained so far in terms of two roles of religion in shaping individual behaviour, i.e. as a social group identifier and as a set of values.

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“…A positive, but nuanced relationship between religion and giving in the Australian context was reported by Lyons and Nivision-Smith (2006) [59]. However, [109] found no relationship between "religious identity" and giving to non-religious causes.…”

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Philanthropic Fundraising of Higher Education Institutions: A Review of the Malaysian and Australian Perspectives

2016

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Currently, higher education institutions are facing rapidly rising costs and limitations in governmental funding. Accordingly, higher education institutions need sustainable forms of funding to operate effectively and remain competitive. In their attempts to identify causes and initiatives, world universities have paid more attention to philanthropic support. In their effort to raise funds, many institutions have grappled with questions of why donors give and what motivates donors to give. To address these questions, scholars must consider the influence of demographic and socio-economic characteristics, as well as internal and external motivational parameters on successful giving behaviour. However, much more attention has been paid to universities in Western countries and the United States. This study aims to review the factors influencing organizational philanthropic fundraising success and to gain an understanding of factors affecting donors' giving decisions and perceptions of giving. This work focuses on donors' giving to Malaysian and Australian public universities.

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Giving to Secular Causes by the Religious and Nonreligious: An Experimental Test of the Responsiveness of Giving to Subsidies

Cited by 126 publications

References 14 publications

Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

The Experimental Economics of Religion

Philanthropic Fundraising of Higher Education Institutions: A Review of the Malaysian and Australian Perspectives

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