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Experiments in Charitable Giving. Special issue of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Special Issue on Experiments in Charitable Giving

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly Journal of Socio-Economics)

Special Issue Editors: John List, Michael Price & Anya Savikhin Samek

Aims and Scope

Recent years have seen an enormous increase and interest in research utilizing experimental methods, both in the laboratory and in the field, to address questions about charitable giving. The special issue on Experiments in Charitable Giving aims to collect high quality and innovative work utilizing experimental methods that address questions about the underlying motivation to be pro-social and the different mechanisms that affect pro-social behavior.

Papers utilizing experimental methods from economics, psychology, marketing and related areas of decision-making are welcome, including but not limited to:

  • Underpinnings of pro-social behavior: pure altruism, warm glow, moral cost/social pressure, empathy.
  • Effects of different solicitation mechanisms: matches/seed grants, social information/norms, rewards (conditional and unconditional), importance of the ask, experiments demonstrating avoidance of the ask, charitable auctions, charity linked products, Pay-What-You-Want pricing.

In addition to gifts of money, we are especially interested in volunteerism and what drives that behavior. We are also interested in experiments that focus on blood and organ donation, and those focusing on promoting conservation efforts and the voluntary provision of environmental quality.

Only papers utilizing experimental methods will be considered. Papers will be evaluated on the applicability to broad topics of relevance in the domain of charitable giving.

Submission Information

Selection of papers for the special issue will follow peer review. Submissions should be made on-line. Please indicate that your paper is meant for the special issue in Experiments in Charitable Giving during the submission process.

Papers can be submitted earlier than the deadline and in that case they will start to be handled immediately. Those papers that are invited to revise and resubmit will get three months to do so. The Guest Editor’s policy in most cases is to make a final decision on the second round. When submitting a paper, authors should use the EES system (http://ees.elsevier.com/jse/default.asp) and choose the appropriate article category (authors select SI: Experiments in Charitable Giving) to mark that the paper should be considered for this special issue. Only original papers not currently under review or published in other journals may be submitted.

For questions, please contact Anya Samek ([email protected])

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