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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … inform fundraising choices. …
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …
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Matching and challenge gifts to charity : evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments
Rondeau, Daniel (contributor); List, John A. (contributor) - 2008
charitable giving. -- Charitable giving ; threshold public goods ; fundraising ; field experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652682
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Charitable behaviour and the big five personality traits : evidence from UK panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2015
This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317623
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376305
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Non-native speakers of English in the classroom : what are the effects on pupil performance?
Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative...
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English deficiency and the native-immigrant wage gap
Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - 2012
We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. We show that the wage gap is robust to controls for age, region of residence, educational attainment and ethnicity. However,...
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Education, health and fertility of UK immigrants : the role of English language skills
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2015
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom, exploiting the fact that young children learn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387165
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The literacy hour
Machin, Stephen (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the literacy hour in English primary schools on pupil attainment. The National Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall English attainment of children in NLP schools as...
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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