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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016

People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...

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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment

Grout, Paul A. (contributor); … - 2008

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show …

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Aid and radicalization: the case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza

Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021

In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...

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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...

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Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...

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Forced displacement in history : some recent research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...

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Resilience to disaster: evidence from daily wellbeing data

Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel J.; … - 2021

As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how natural disasters in the US impacted individual...

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