Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,682
Cover Image
The Impact of School Spending on Civic Engagement : Evidence from School Finance Reforms
Asker, Erdal; Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A primary rationale for public provision of K-12 education and state financing of school spending is that education fosters civic engagement and the development of social capital. However, limited evidence exists on whether and how school spending affects civic engagement. Virtually all studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477203
Cover Image
Disaster Management
Van Reenen, John; Norris Keiller, Agnes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Management Survey (WMS) that includes new questions on firms' climate change perceptions and adaptation behavior. Combining this …, firms with structured management practices are more resilient, suffering much smaller drops in jobs and capital. To …-targeted. These results show that improving management is one way to help protect economies from climate change shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576624
Cover Image
Working for Nothing : The Supply of Volunteer Labor
Freeman, Richard B. - 1996
Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This paper shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the U.S.; that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time; that standard labor supply explanations of volunteering account for only a minor part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473429
Cover Image
Crowding In with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks
Kotchen, Matthew - 2019
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480388
Cover Image
Every Day is Earth Day : Evidence on the Long-term Impact of Environmental Activism
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2020
We explore the importance of activism in the context of Earth Day. We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a community on April 22, 1970, is associated 10 to 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481935
Cover Image
Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts : Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment
Lange, Andreas - 2009
Despite the increasing use by charities, significant uncertainty exists about optimal online fundraising mechanisms, especially when large donor pools show substantial heterogeneities. We use an online natural field experiment with over 700,000 subjects to test theory on price discounts and show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463707
Cover Image
How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2008
Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464571
Cover Image
Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations
Brown, Alexander L. - 2013
Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the donor's opportunity cost? Previous models of altruism that focus on the overall impact of a gift cannot rationalize this behavior, despite its prevalence. We develop a model that relaxes this assumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459595
Cover Image
Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2008
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464285
Cover Image
What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness
Fong, Christina M. - 2007
We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465435