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Impact Matters for Giving at Checkout

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  • Athey, Susan
  • Cerosimo, Matias
  • Karlan, Dean
  • Koutout, Kristine
  • Steimer, Henrike

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We conducted two experiments on PayPal’s Give at Checkout feature to learn about the effect of 1) information about charity outcomes on donations, and 2) exposure to these point-of-sale microgiving requests on subsequent giving. In this “impulsive†giving context, quantifying the charity’s outcome generates positive treatment effects, larger than those for a narrative. Third-party validation can decrease giving when added to the quantified outcome treatment, and has at most small effects relative to no information. The second experiment finds neither crowd-in (e.g., via habit formation) nor crowd-out (e.g., via budgeting) from these microgiving requests on later donation behavior.

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  • Athey, Susan & Cerosimo, Matias & Karlan, Dean & Koutout, Kristine & Steimer, Henrike, 2026. "Impact Matters for Giving at Checkout," CEPR Discussion Papers 21182, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:21182
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