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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...
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
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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 …
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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...
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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 …
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Charity Auctions for the Happy Few
Bos, Olivier - 2008
Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …
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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2014
We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size...
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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 …
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