Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5034203 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics | 2017 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
Do time constraints impact charitable giving? This paper develops a simple model to show how deadlines could affect the propensity to make a charitable donation. We then conduct two field experiments to show empirically the effect of deadlines on charitable giving. About 53,000 prior donors of a large Danish charity received e-mails and text messages with varying deadlines for giving. We find no effect of deadlines on the propensity to give. Instead we observe a “now-or-never” effect; either donations are made immediately or not at all.
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Authors
Mette Trier Damgaard, Christina Gravert,