by givingnl | Jan 31, 2023 | News
In the corona year 2020, the Netherlands gave 5.6 billion euros to charitable organizations. This is evident from the research Giving in the Netherlands by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Companies in particular have started giving more to charitable causes: they...
by givingnl | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
We're starting the new year with an English translation of the summary for Giving in the Netherlands 2022. The publication contains contributions from René Bekkers, Claire van Teunenbroek, Stephanie Koolen-Maas, Dick de Gilder, Arjen de Wit, Barbara Gouwenburg,...
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...
