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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these … situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non …-competitive effect on charity selection, raising the value of charity provision per dollar of funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072503
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Does Giving to Charity Lead to Better Health? Evidence from Tax Subsidies for Charitable Giving
Yoruk, Baris - 2021
In the United States, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. The existing literature documents that charitable giving is very responsive to tax subsidies, but often ignores the spillover effects of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315591
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly …Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156
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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2016
Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate … the notion that giving in social groups is motivated by “relational altruism” …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986651
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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-Profit Provision and Charity Selection
Perroni, Carlo - 2015
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031990
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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2014
between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050470
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Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling in Charitable Giving
van der Weele, Joel J. - 2014
experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056823
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Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions Evidence from a Field Experiment
Adena, Maja - 2014
When asking for donations, charitable organizations often use suggestions concerning the amount of potential contributions. In our randomized field experiment, opera visitors received solicitation letters asking to support a social youth project organized by the opera house. The three different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057248
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More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK
Almunia, Miguel - 2018
This paper estimates the intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving using UK administrative tax return data, exploiting variation from a large tax reform. Using a variety of estimation methods and new instruments for the tax-price of giving, we find an intensive-margin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933062
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Giving in the Face of Risk
Cettolin, Elena - 2017
The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences interact in such situations. In this paper we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966905