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Title: 

Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment on matching and distance to charitable output in Kyrgyzstan

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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
WZB Discussion Paper No. SP II 2019-305
Publisher: 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Abstract: 
Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle or higher income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor. Despite this focus, the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field experiment with over 180,000 cli-ents of a micro-lending company in Kyrgyzstan, we study charitable giving by a population that is much poorer relative to the typical donors that have been stud-ied so far. In a 2x2 design, we explore two main hypotheses about giving by the poor: (i) that they are more price sensitive and (ii) that they care about their prox-imity to the charitable project. We find evidence in favor of the former hypothesis but not of the latter.
Subjects: 
Charitable giving
field experiments
matching donations
JEL: 
C93
D64
D12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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