This paper shows that public provision of private goods may be justified on pure efficiency grounds in an environment … the provision of public goods. We show that public provision of the private good improves economic efficiency under a … is an example where there is efficiency loss from separating revenue and expenditure problems in public finance, and is …

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 …

We conducted two matching grant experiments with an international development charity. The primary experiment finds …. Overall, the results help to clarify why people give to charity, what models help to describe those motivations, and how …