<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Motivation represents a foundation cornerstone on which analyses in a number of humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen motivation as connected with the act of giving, trying to interpret it in the context of the neoclassical economics assumptions. The objective of this paper is to find answers to the question of what mainly motivates the Czech population in their decisions to make a donation and whether there is any interdependence among such motives. We also ask what the relationship is between the determining motives and the rate or frequency of donating. The donation models that we analyze and use as the basis of our research are nowadays considered being the principal or at least interesting donation models commonly taken into account by economists in their work. We have only focused on selected microeconomics models to make the text clearly targeted; specifically, we are examining the public goods model, private consumption model investment model and impure altruism model. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey and analysed by means of mathematical-statistical methods that are commonly used in similar cases, such as descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient and the ANOVA method based on the F-test. The empirical testing confirmed several assumptions connecting with this type of a research; however, our paper opened a space for a follow-up research, too.</p></abstract>

Motivation represents a foundation cornerstone on which analyses in a number of humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen motivation as connected with the act of giving, trying to interpret it in the context of the neoclassical economics assumptions. The objective of this paper is to find answers to the question of what mainly motivates the Czech population in their decisions to make a donation and whether there is any interdependence among such motives. We also ask what the relationship is between the determining motives and the rate or frequency of donating. The donation models that we analyze and use as the basis of our research are nowadays considered being the principal or at least interesting donation models commonly taken into account by economists in their work. We have only focused on selected microeconomics models to make the text clearly targeted; specifically, we are examining the public goods model, private consumption model investment model and impure altruism model. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey and analysed by means of mathematical-statistical methods that are commonly used in similar cases, such as descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient and the ANOVA method based on the F-test. The empirical testing confirmed several assumptions connecting with this type of a research; however, our paper opened a space for a follow-up research, too.

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Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Review of Economic Perspectives

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Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations?

Motivation represents a foundation cornerstone on which analyses in a number of humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen...

Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations?¹

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 357 - 382

Received: Mar 04, 2015

Accepted: Sep 01, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0026

Keywords
Altruism, charitable giving, motive

© 2015 Marie Hladká et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations?1

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 357 - 382

Received: Mar 04, 2015

Accepted: Sep 01, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0026

KeywordsAltruism, charitable giving, motive

© 2015 Marie Hladká et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations?¹

Keywords
Altruism, charitable giving, motive