10.7802/1.2121
Adena, Maja
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Alizade, Jeyhun
Princeton University
Bohner, Frauke
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Harke, Julian
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mesters, Fabio
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: dataset
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
2019
10900 Economics
D00 Microeconomics: General
quality
certification
non-profit-organization
altruistic behavior
experiment
2017-01-30/2017-02-08
1.0
CC BY 4.0
<p>Supporting data for the article "Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: experimental evidence". In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. Compared to the control group, participants presented with a quality certificate chose higher donations by around 10% and reported higher trust towards the same charity. The choice of donation values over time shows strong persistence such that the difference between the two groups remained even after all participants were informed about the certificate. Since the initially uninformed donors did not adjust their donations sufficiently upwards, we conclude that quality certification is less likely to affect giving of existing donors. Finally, we find no significant effect of information about certificate fees.</p>
Experiment
<p>Undergraduate students from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Universität Potsdam</p>