Purpose Global crises create an environment that is characterized by a fight for survival by
countries, companies and citizens. While firms have adopted business initiatives to ensure …

There is an increasing pressure to give more wisely and effectively. There is, relatedly, an
increasing focus on charity performance metrics. Through a series of experiments, this paper …

We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine how third-party ratings impact charity choice
and donative behavior, particularly in regards to preferences for local charities. Subjects are …

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 …

Using a sample of industry-diverse nonprofit organizations, we find support for stakeholders'
use of nonprofit going-concern audit opinion (GCO) reports. We study the reactions of the …

This study uses an online survey experiment to test whether the pairing of profit‐seeking
with mission‐related programs in the social sector attracts or deters donations from …

We investigate strategic communication about the social impact of costly prosocial actions. A
'sender'with noisy information about impact sends a cheap-talk message to a 'receiver', upon …

Charities differ, among other things, alongside the likelihood that their interventions succeed
and produce the desired outcomes and alongside the extent that such likelihood can even …

Nonprofits' performance is often evaluated based, in part, on their program spending ratio
(PSR). Yet, ranking nonprofits based on PSR has been criticized because it is an imprecise …

Unit donations are an alternative fundraising scheme in which potential donors choose how
many units of a charitable good to fund rather than just giving money. Based on evidence …