# Prof. Anindya Ghose's research on crowdfunding and privacy is highlighted

1 Faculty News September 4, 2014 ![Pacific Standard logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/logo.png.jpg?itok=V036tDMR)>

Excerpt from [Pacific Standard](http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/privacy-doesnt-encourage-crowdfunding-90061/) -- "...Burtch and colleagues [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose) and Sunil Wattal went to 'one of the world’s largest online crowdfunding platforms,' as they describe it in their paper, and proposed a simple experiment... they found a privacy effect, meaning about five percent more people gave when they had to pay first and select privacy options later. But the authors also found what they termed a publicity effect: When users saw the privacy options last, those who went through with a contribution gave $5.81 less on average, the net result of fewer very large or very small (but still non-zero) amounts."

[Read more](http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/privacy-doesnt-encourage-crowdfunding-90061/)