Models, theories, psych. norms
An overall characterization of widely-cited and 'conventional-wisdom' evidenced background drivers barriers to effectiveness X charitable giving
Barriers/obstacles to effective giving: classification
We focus on the 'barriers' or 'hurdles to giving effectively' among individuals who already engage in some charitable giving and other-regarding acts. Loosely, a donor would need to "jump over all of these hurdles" and cross each of these barriers in order to be giving effectively.
Conceptual breakdown (I)
A conceptual breakdown of barriers:
Base values may be (non) utilitarian: People are optimising their own 'X', which does not coincide with impact --> no puzzle?
Avoiding information about effectiveness: Even if people want to optimise impact, they may specifically dislike and avoid gathering information about effectiveness in a charitable giving setting
Presenting effectiveness information may backfire: E.g., if it switches off the 'generous part of the brain', gets people to think in a more 'market' mode, or makes people indecisive
I present and discuss this breakdown, a more practical breakdown, and specific examples in each category in the part of the synthesis. I go into further detail an (work to) present evidence on each of these in later sections of that site. (I plan to go through that work and extract only the key, most practical elements).
These barriers are also mapped, and connected with tools and evidence in .
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