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Government Grants to Private Charities: Do They Crowd-Out Giving or Fundraising?

Andreoni, James; Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

of a second reason: that the stretegic response of the charity will be to pull back on its fundraising efforts after … receiving a grant. We develop a theoretical model to show a charity that chooses its level of fundraising efforts strategically … will reduce fundraising in response to government grants. We then analyze data on tax returns of 474 social services …

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Foreign Capital, Inflation, Sterilization, Crowding-Out and

Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was during the 1991 crisis, but without a large current account deficit or rise in inflation or...

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Unemployment Insurance under Moral Hazard and Limited Commitment: Public vs Private Provision

Thomas, Jonathan P; Worrall, Tim - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses a model of private unemployment insurance under limited commitment and a model of public unemployment insurance subject to moral hazard in an economy with a continuum of agents and an infinite time horizon. The dynamic and steady-state properties of the private unemployment...

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Return Postage in Mail Surveys: A Meta Analysis

Armstrong, JS; Lusk, Edward J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper describes a five-step procedure for meta-analysis. Especially important was the contacting of authors of prior papers. This was done primarily to improve the accuracy of the coding; it also helped to identify unpublished research and to supply missing information. Application of the...

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Cultural differences in ultimatum game experiments: Evidence from a meta-analysis

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sloof, Randolph; Kuilen, Gijs van de - EconWPA - 2004

This paper reports the findings of a meta-analysis of 37 papers with 75 results from ultimatum game experiments. We find that on average the proposer offers 40% of the pie to the responder. This share tends is smaller for larger pie sizes and larger when a strategy method is used or when...

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Class of Mail Does Affect Response Rates to Mailed

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

In contrast to the conclusions. from traditional reviews, meta-analysis shows that certain types of postage have an important effect on return rates to mail surveys. In particular, US business reply postage should not be used in survey research.

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Reaping Benefits from Management Research: Lessons from the Forecasting Principles Project, with Reply to Commentators

Armstrong, JS; Pagell, Ruth - EconWPA - 2005

It is often claimed that managers do not read serious research papers in journals. If true, this neglect would seem to pose a problem because journals are the dominant source of knowledge in management science. By examining results from the forecasting principles project, which was designed to...

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