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Jiang, Xiheng; Xing, Jianwei; Xu, Jintao; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving : New Findings from the TCJA

Han, Xiao; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-tax payers. We study the impact of this on giving. Basic theory and our empirical results suggest heterogeneous effects for …

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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Karlan, Dean - 2014

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test …

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Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the combined effects of popularity and feelings of being important to reaching a goal by testing how people react to situations in which their own behavior is pivotal or not, as well as the popularity of the action. We conduct a laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about 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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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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