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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
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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Philanthropy and public policy
Dickinson, Frank G. (contributor) - 1962
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Charitable Giving Responses to Education Budgets
Meer, Jonathan; Tajali, Hedieh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Do changes in government spending affect voluntary contributions to those recipients? We examine how changes in K-12 education budgets impact donations to teachers using data from DonorsChoose.org, an online crowdfunding platform for public school teachers to raise money for their classrooms....
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Identification in Tax-Price Regression Models : The Case of Charitable Giving
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 1982
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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Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States
Petrova, Maria - 2020
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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Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2020
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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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being : Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
Aknin, Lara B. - 2010
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that prosocial spending is...
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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities
Andreoni, James - 2010
When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...
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Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida
Almond, Douglas - 2010
This paper explores the consequences of the expiration of charity care requirements imposed on private hospitals by the …-2003 combined with hospital data from the American Hospital Association. We find that charity care requirements were binding on … obligations expired, private hospitals quickly reduced their charity caseloads, shifting maternity patients to public hospitals …
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