Donor Giving Increases With Incentives That Appeal to Sense of Social Status

The study, titled "The Joys of Giving and Receiving," was funded by the National Science Foundation, and is available for download at http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/holgers/papers/sz_11_08.pdf.

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