Current State of Philanthropy
Friday, April 24 – Sunday, April 26, 2009
Middlebury College
Friday, April 24, 2009
6:00 PM - Wine and Welcome at the Chateau Grand Salon
6:15 pm - Dinner buffet at the Chateau Grand Salon
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:00 – 8:15 – Gather at Axinn 219 for light breakfast
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon University; “Willingness to Pay for Justice: Evidence from an Experiment on Giving to the Poor” by Christina Fong & Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM Brian McManus, University of North Carolina; “The Demand for Products Linked to Public Goods: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment” by Brian McManus & Richard Bennet, CCA Global Partners
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Sera Linardi and Margaret A McConnell, California Institute of Technology; “No Excuses for Good Behavior” by Sera Linardi & Margaret A McConnell
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Jeffrey Carpenter & Jessica Holmes & Peter Hans Matthews, Middlebury College; “Endogenous Participation in Charity Auctions” by Jeffrey Carpenter & Jessica Holmes & Peter Hans Matthews
11:45 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch in Axinn 219
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM James Andreoni, University of California, San Diego; "Crowding out Both Sides of the Philanthropy Market: Evidence from a Panel of Charities" by James Andreoni & Abigail Payne, McMaster University
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Clair Null, University of California, Berkeley; “Warm Glow, Information and Inefficient Charitable Giving” by Clair Null
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM Angela C. M. de Oliveira, University of Texas at Dallas; “Are Preferences Stable Across Domains? An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in the Field” by Angela C. M. de Oliveira, Rachel T. A. Croson & Catherine Eckel, University of Texas at Dallas
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Imran Rasul, University College of London; “Testing Consumer Theory in the Field: Private Consumption versus Charitable Goods” by Steffen Huck & Imran Rasul
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburgh; “The Role of Seed Money when Public Projects have Fixed Costs” by Lise Vesterlund & Jipeng Zhang, University of Pittsburgh
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM Free time
6:45 PM – Dinner buffet at Kirk
7:45 pm – Keynote address by John List, University of Chicago
Sunday, April 26, 2009
8:00 – 8:15 – gather at Axinn 219 for light breakfast
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Jonathan Meer, Stanford University; The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation” by Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen, Princeton University
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon University; “Race, Fairness and Generosity to the Poor: Evidence from a Broadly Representative Charity Experiment" by Christina M. Fong and Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Harvard Kennedy School
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Discussion: “Moving Forward on the JPubE special issue”