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.
About the Tepper School of Business: Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical decision-making. The school's notable contributions to the intellectual community include six Nobel laureates, a Nobel Prize record that is unsurpassed by any business school worldwide. It is also among the schools with the highest rate of academic citations in the fields of finance, operations research, organizational behavior and production/operations. The academic offerings of the Tepper School include undergraduate studies in business and economics, graduate studies in business administration and financial engineering, and doctoral studies.
