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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324984
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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers : Lessons from a Field Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2015
inform fundraising choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024901
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015
-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean … (SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012798
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World Income Inequality Databases : An Assessment of Wiid and Swiid
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046233
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2015
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750376
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057045
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Waiting to Give
Craig, Ashley - 2014
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046242
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Optimal Incentives to Give
Castillo, Marco - 2020
predicted by theory and our simulations. Our findings highlight the pitfalls of relying on a particular parameterization of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831983
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Unofficial Development Assistance : A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2011
specification. Using a newly assembled long panel of data, we find evidence of a strong, but diminishing fundraising effect. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127315
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector : Evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila - 2015
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039127