Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/157374 
Title: 

Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: experimental evidence

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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WZB Discussion Paper No. SP II 2017-302
Publisher: 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Abstract: 
In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality certificate, participants chose higher donations by approximately 10%. This effect is significant for donations out of prize money and actual own money donations, and not significant but positive for own money intended donations. Moreover, this effect persists over time. We also find a nega-tive but not significant effect of information about certificate fees. We find that the certificate increases trust in the nonprofit organization. There is some evi-dence pointing to the causal role of trust for donation probability.
Subjects: 
non-profit certification
charitable giving
experiment
trust
JEL: 
D64
C99
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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