Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183146 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WZB Discussion Paper No. SP II 2016-306r2
Version Description: 
April 2016 (2n revision October 2018)
Publisher: 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Abstract: 
We provide the first field evidence pointing at the role of pure self-image, inde-pendent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals appear to engage in self-deception to preserve their self-image. In addition, we provide evidence on stark adverse long-run effects of the fund-raising campaign for ticket sales. “Avoiding the ask,” opera customers who faced more insistent online fundraising buy fewer tickets in the following season. Our results suggest that fundraising management should not decide in isolation about their campaigns, even if very successful. Rather broader operational concerns have to be considered.
Subjects: 
online fundraising
quasi-experiment
self-image
JEL: 
D64
D03
D12
C93
L31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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