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you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …
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which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera House, we mailed 14,000 regular … charitable giving. We find that straight linear matching schemes raise the total donations received including the match value …, but partially crowd out the actual donations given excluding the match. If charitable organizations can use lead gifts as …
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Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...
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The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called "self-insurance" and "self-protection", including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health...
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It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection models. It has also been shown that cooperation can evolve as a costly signal of an unobservable...
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This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time … association with donations of time and money at the extreme points of the distribution of donations relative to that at the median …
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towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …
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Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers' inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
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to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …
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A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a...
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