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laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …
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Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...
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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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Microgiving, a new form of digital fundraising, operates by soliciting minuscule, recurring donations from large … numbers of potential donors. We evaluate a charity subscription program operated by Alibaba, China's largest retail platform …, which allows sellers to pledge a tiny portion of a product's revenue (2 cents per order) to charity, with donations made …
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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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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated federal charitable giving incentives for roughly 20 percent of US income-tax payers. We study the impact of this on giving. Basic theory and our empirical results suggest heterogeneous effects for taxpayers with different amounts of itemizable expenses....
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A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population …. We find that these "gender minority gaps" are robust, are as large as--or larger than--gender gaps between men and women … identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender …
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We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
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We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of … firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing … respondents an audiovisual presentation about the recipients. The experiment yields three main findings. First, we find …
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experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism …
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