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Katz, Stanley N. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1299-1321). 2006

Charity on the English and early American model must be distinguished from philanthropy as it developed in America at … the turn of the twentieth century. Philanthropy aims at the systemic eradication of social ills rather than, as does … arts and culture, and when corporate philanthropy emerged in the 1950s it was also often aimed at the arts and culture. The …

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Gift or donation? : increase the effectiveness of charitable solicitation through framing charitable giving as a gift

Wang, Xue Phyllis; Wang, Yijie; Jiang, Yuwei - In: Journal of marketing 87 (2023) 1, pp. 133-147

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Are workers motivated by the greater good? : workers care about employers' social causes, but the public sector does not attract particularly motivated employees

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

Employees show more commitment to an employer that promotes the greater good, and they work harder too. Moreover, many people are willing to give up some of their compensation to contribute to a social cause. Being able to attract a motivated workforce would be particularly important for the...

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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019

Some companies engage in mass fundraising - where thousands of recipients are asked to make small donations - in addition to their core business. Via a corpo-rate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, recent research uncovered significant "ask avoidance" which, if...

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Charity : Have the Rates of US Households Contributing Money or Time Declined?

Smith, Vincent Kerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses the responses to questions about charitable contributions from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) between 1992 and 2022 to consider the rates of US households contributing money or time to charitable organizations. The fraction donating $500 or more remained relatively...

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Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the combined effects of popularity and feelings of being important to reaching a goal by testing how people react to situations in which their own behavior is pivotal or not, as well as the popularity of the action. We conduct a laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the...

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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies, through their various occurrences: in families; among the diverse motives of the political and public sector; as the general respect and moral conduct which permit life in...

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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...

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Donative behavior at the end of life

Meer, Jonathan; Rosen, Harvey S. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 92 (2013) C, pp. 192-201

A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate...

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Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends Over a Quarter Century

Atkinson, Tony; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

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