by givingnl | Jun 6, 2023 | News
Classical economic theory has posited offering incentives – through monetary or nonmonetary extrinsic rewards – is a promising strategy to encourage prosocial behavior. However, results from empirical research on the effect of incentives on prosocial...
by givingnl | Feb 13, 2023 | News
Since the beginning of this year, the Center for Philanthropic Studies continued their research on giving in the Netherlands. Giving in the Netherlands 2024 will be the 14th edition, about giving in the year 2022: a year of crisis. In the first months of 2022, we were...
by givingnl | Jan 31, 2023 | News
Unemployment, especially when involuntary, often has a negative effect on one’s emotional well-being. But is that the same for volunteers and non-volunteers? It could be that volunteers are less sensitive to the stress of job loss by having a social support network...
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 | 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,...
