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Devictor, Xavier; Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2022

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...

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Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits : Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?

Capps, Cory S. - 2017

Nonprofit hospitals receive favorable tax treatment in exchange for providing socially beneficial activities. Extending this rationale would suggest that, insofar as suppression of competition would allow nonprofits to cross-subsidize care for needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should...

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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

Fong, Christina M. - 2010

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative respondent panel that is maintained by a private survey research firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate...

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What is the Business of Business?

Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics : Evidence from Indonesia

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the …

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Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity : Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Rondeau, Daniel - 2010

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...

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Social Distance and Quality Ratings in Charity Choice

Brown, Alexander L. - 2014

We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine how third-party ratings impact charity choice and donative behavior, particularly in regards to preferences for local charities. Subjects are given a menu of ten charities, with a mix of local and non-local organizations included. We vary whether...

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Are Pilots Property Taxes for Nonprofits?

Fei, Fan - 2015

Nonprofit charitable organizations are exempt from most taxes, including local property taxes, but U.S. cities and towns increasingly request that nonprofits make payments in lieu of taxes (known as PILOTs). Strictly speaking, PILOTs are voluntary, though nonprofits may feel pressure to make...

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