The authors present an overview of the academic literature on charitable giving based on a
literature review of more than 500 articles. They structure their review around the central …

This is the second of two articles in which we present a comprehensive review of the
multidisciplinary academic literature on philanthropy. In this article, we identify the following …

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and
meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners …

We conducted a natural field experiment to further our understanding of the economics of
charity. Using direct mail solicitations to over 50,000 prior donors of a nonprofit organization …

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are
designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via …

A long literature has examined the effects of the price of giving–that is, the amount an
individual must give for one dollar to accrue to the charitable activity itself–on donative …

In this groundbreaking book, the world's leading expert on procrastination, Dr Piers Steel,
reveals the truth about why procrastinate–and shows us what we can do about it. Using a …

Despite the millions of hours donated to charity each year by employees on behalf of their
employers there has been relatively little research into the motives for such pro-social …

Questions about social enforcement and the role of individual reporting in preventing
corporate and governmental misconduct are at the forefront of current debates and reforms …

With the growing body of literature on governance styles in which nonprofit organizations
are involved in creating and implementing public services, there is a need for robust …