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Is charitable giving political? : evidence from wealth and income tax returns

Cagé, Julia; Guillot, Malka - 2025

Is charitable giving politically motivated? This article uses exhaustive administrative household panel data and a natural experiment to investigate the giving behavior of wealthy households and quantify their preferences for charitable and political donations. Our dataset includes all the...

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Relational warm glow and giving in social group

Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook

Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024

Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …

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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022

Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...

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Socializing alone : how online homophily has undermined social cohesion in the US

Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Russo, Gianluca; … - 2024

We examine the long-run effect of homophily in online social networks on interpersonal interactions in local communities. We measure online homophily across counties in the US using Facebook data. For identification, we exploit a conflict between Facebook and Google over data sharing of user...

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Toward an understanding of why suggestions work in charitable fundraising : theory and evidence from a natural field experiment

Edwards, James T.; List, John A. - 2013

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal …

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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...

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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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Can charitable appeals identify and exploit belief heterogeneity?

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2021

Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...

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The challenges of service delivery by charities in Ghana : the case of Rotary

Gollo, Janet Serwah; Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2024

We investigated the factors that negatively affect the service delivery capacity of charities in Ghana by using seven Rotary clubs as a case study. Primary data was collected via a survey of executives of the seven Rotary clubs. Our analysis revealed that the three main challenges that Rotary...

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