Cracking the Fundraising Code Chicago Business, August 24, 2009 DOWNLOAD PDF Fundraising has been called an art and a science, but, most of all, it’s a crapshoot. John List is trying to change that. Mr. List, 40, an economist at the University of Chicago...
Using Field Experiments in the Economics of Charity NBER, 2008 Number 4 DOWNLOAD PDF The experimental approach in scientific inquiry is commonly traced to Galileo Galilei, who pioneered the use of quantitative experiments to test his theories of falling...
Meet your Match Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2008 DOWNLOAD PDF Economists Dean Karlan and John A. List recently made a deal with an unnamed national nonprofit: They would lend the organization their expertise in study design and data analysis if...
What Makes People Give? New York Times, March 09, 2008 DOWNLOAD PDF Not long after the 2004 presidential election, John List and Dean Karlan formed an unusual partnership, with the idea of teaching a little-known liberal group how to raise more money. Karlan,...
Bigger Matching Gifts Don’t Produce More Donors The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 15, 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF Persuading a wealthy donor to match smaller gifts from other people is one of the most popular techniques in fundraising. But charity officials...
