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Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising techniques, little is known about …
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Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
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nonprofit hospitals depends on the link between market power and charity care provision. To test the link, we use three measures … of charity care--two dollar-denominated and one based on service volume--to study charity care provision by for … no evidence that nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to provide more charity care, or to offer …
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Despite the increasing use by charities, significant uncertainty exists about optimal online fundraising mechanisms … given money and/or volunteered. For example, framing the charity's membership price as a discount increases response rates … demonstrates the importance of conditioning fundraising strategies on the specifics of past donation dimensions …
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for themselves or a charity of their choice, with the ability to transfer any of their personal earnings to charity at the …
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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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In this paper we use an instrumental variable estimator to exploit sources of independent variation, which allows unbiased estimation of the tax-price elasticity under more general conditions. The estimator is applied to the demand for charitable giving. A charitable giving equation is an...
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We provide evidence that individuals substitute between political contributions and charitable contributions, using micro data from the American Red Cross and Federal Election Commission. First, we find that foreign natural disasters, which are positive shocks to charitable giving, crowd out...
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Do new societal needs increase charitable giving or simply reallocate a fixed supply of donations? We study this question using IRS datasets and the natural experiment of deadly tornadoes. Among ZIP Codes located more than 20 miles away from a tornado's path, donations by households increase by...
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