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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving
Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...
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Does Online Salience Predict Charitable Giving? Evidence from SMS Text Donations
Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberley; Talavera, Sasha; Vi, … - 2021
We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities’...
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The Bonus-Income Donation Norm
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858205
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908656
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Trust, Happiness, and Pro-Social Behavior
Carattini, Stefano - 2020
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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The Pledging Puzzle : How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2019
donors, such as expressions of gratitude. In an experiment, we find that offering the option to pledge gifts induces self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858200
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More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK
Almunia, Miguel - 2019
This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315042
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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 2016
Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate (i … the notion that giving in social groups is motivated by “relational altruism”. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522452
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Efficiency-Inducing Tax Credits for Charitable Donations When Taxpayers Have Heterogeneous Behavioral Norms
Van Long, Ngo - 2021
charity is zero. If both types of taxpayers co-exist, and the government does not know who is of what type, then it is not …
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