TY  - JOUR
A1  - Keser, Claudia
A1  - Kliemt, Hartmut
A1  - Späth, Maximilian
T1  - Charitable giving
BT  - the role of framing and information
JF  - PLoS ONE
N2  - We investigate how different levels of information influence the allocation decisions of donors who are entitled to freely distribute a fixed monetary endowment between themselves and a charitable organization in both giving and taking frames. Participants donate significantly higher amounts, when the decision is described as taking rather than giving. This framing effect becomes smaller if more information about the charity is provided.
KW  - experimental economics
KW  - dictator game
KW  - experimental design
KW  - labor economics
KW  - welfare economics
KW  - language
KW  - prosocial behavior
KW  - university laboratories
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288400
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 18
IS  - 7
PB  - Public Library of Science (PLoS)
CY  - San Francisco, California
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Späth, Maximilian
A1  - Goller, Daniel
T1  - Gender differences in investment reactions to irrelevant information
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Economic agents often irrationally base their decision-making on irrelevant information. This research analyzes whether men and women react to futile information about past outcomes. For this purpose, we run a laboratory experiment (Study 1) and use field data (Study 2). In both studies, the behavior of men is consistent with falsely assumed negative autocorrelation, often referred to as gambler’s fallacy Women’s behavior aligns with falsely assumed positive autocorrelation, a notion of the hot hand fallacy. On the aggregate, the two fallacies cancel out. Even when individuals are, on average, rational, the biases in the decision-making of subgroups might cause inefficient outcomes. In a mediation analysis, we find that a) the agents stated perceived probabilities of future outcomes are not blurred by irrelevant information and b) about 40 % of the observed biases are driven by differences in the perceived attractiveness of available choices caused by the irrelevant information.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 67 
KW  - hot hand fallacy
KW  - gambler’s fallac
KW  - gender
KW  - irrelevant information
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-606351
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 67
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Späth, Maximilian
T1  - It’s me again… Ask Avoidance and the Dynamics of Charitable Giving
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Charities typically ask potential donors repeatedly for a donation. These repeated requests might trigger avoidance behavior. Considering that, this paper analyzes the impact of offering an ask avoidance option on charitable giving. In a proposed utility framework, the avoidance option decreases the social pressure to donate. At the same time, it induces feelings of gratitude toward the fundraiser, which may lead to a reciprocal increase in donations. The results of a lab experiment designed to disentangle the two channels show no negative impact of the option to avoid repeated asking on donations. Instead, the full model indicates a positive impact of the reciprocity channel. This finding suggests that it might be beneficial for charities to introduce an ask avoidance option during high-frequency fundraising campaigns.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 38 
KW  - Charitable giving
KW  - Repeated request
KW  - Ask avoidance
KW  - Experiment
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-520991
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 38
ER  -