How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

The authors thank TechnoServe for collaborating on this field experiment, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for providing the matching grant to TechnoServe, Conor Dowling and Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science for providing access to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (and its funder, the National Science Foundation), NORC for collaboration on the AmeriSpeak survey, and Omar Parbhoo, ideas42 and Charity Navigator for providing data to the curated-list test reported herein. All opinions reported here are those of the authors and not of TechnoServe or of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Karlan thanks the Alfred B. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation for support; List thanks the Templeton Foundation for support. We thank Nathan Barker, Shannon Coyne, Ellen Degnan, Selvan Kumar, Peter Lugthart, Rachel Strohm, James Tan, Natalia Torres and Jonathan Vayness for research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• March 27, 2012
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