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Optimal targeting in fundraising : a machine-learning approach
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021
causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …
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Quality-aware tax incentives for charitable contributions
Halberstam, Zachary; Hines, James R. - 2023
This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...
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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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Does online salience predict charitable giving? : evidence from SMS text donations
Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberly A.; Talavera, Oleksandr; … - 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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Wealth taxation and charitable giving
Ring, Marius A. K.; 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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The social dilemma of big data : donating personal data to promote social welfare
Hillebrand, Kirsten; Hornuf, Lars - 2021
When using digital devices and services, individuals provide their personal data to organizations in exchange for gains in various domains of life. Organizations use these data to run technologies such as smart assistants, augmented reality, and robotics. Most often, these organizations seek to...
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Lift and shift : the effect of fundraising interventions in charity space and time
Scharf, Kimberly A.; Smith, Sarah; Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni - 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 …
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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?
Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012
Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...
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The signaling role of charitable contributions by business : a tax policy perspective
Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2016
Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...
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Charitable contributions by businesses : a tax policy perspective
Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2019
Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods by businesses may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103589