by givingnl | Jan 28, 2022 | News, Publications
How does inequality affect individuals’ civic engagement? Though a growing body of multidisciplinary literature has started to address this question, empirical results vary considerably and explanations about what underlies this relationship remain fragmentary. In...
by givingnl | May 6, 2021 | News, Publications
Incentives are considered effective tools for encouraging behavior, but their inconsistent effect on prosocial behavior has been puzzling! In a new preprint, Caroline Graf, Eva-Maria Merz, Bianca Suanet and Pamala Wiepking argue that social norms may offer an...
by givingnl | Mar 30, 2021 | News, Publications
Claire van Teunenbroek published a paper (with René Bekkers and Bianca Beersma) on social information effects (i.e. mentioning the donation amount of others) on donation behavior. They found that social information in the form of an injunctive norm increases both the...
by givingnl | Mar 26, 2021 | News
On March 19, 2021 the Center for Philanthropic Studies and the Dutch Charity Lotteries organized a joint symposium “Unrestricted and multi-year financing of societal organizations” leading up to the inaugural lecture of Prof. dr. Pamala Wiepking. With this...
by givingnl | Mar 25, 2021 | News, Publications
Stephanie Maas wrote a blog post on the NVSQ Blog about her recent article “Designing ‘National Day of Service’ Projects to Promote Volunteer Job Satisfaction” published in Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly. The article is about...
by givingnl | Feb 23, 2021 | News
Arjen de Wit was recently nominated for the Research Award by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this one-minute video, he briefly introduces his research on the interactions between philanthropy and the welfare state. Currently,...
