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High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving
Alston, Mackenzie - 2018
How can charities solicit high-capacity donors to provide the funds for matching grants and leadership gifts? In conjunction with one of Texas A&M University's fundraising organizations, we conducted a field experiment to study whether high-income donors respond to non-personal solicitations, as...
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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
Exley, Christine L - 2019
In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap...
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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
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Ask Your Doctor? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals
Sinkinson, Michael - 2015
We measure the impact of direct-to-consumer television advertising (DTCA) by drug manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits shocks to local advertising markets generated by idiosyncrasies of the political advertising cycle as well as a regulatory intervention affecting a single...
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Direct to Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceutical Drugs : Information and Persuasion
Bar, Talia - 2014
We formally model direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs and examine factors that determine a pharmaceutical firm's DTCA strategy. We highlight how the profitability of DTCA varies with the characteristics of the condition that the advertised drug treats, the incidence of...
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The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Pharmaceutical Prices and Demand
Dave, Dhaval - 2010
Expenditures on prescription drugs are one of the fastest growing components of national health care spending, rising by almost three-fold between 1995 and 2007. Coinciding with this growth in prescription drug expenditures has been a rapid rise in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), made...
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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers
Taylor, Eric S. - 2011
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …
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Estimation and Evaluation of DSGE Models : Progress and Challenges
Schorfheide, Frank - 2011
advances in the estimation and evaluation of DSGE models, discusses current challenges, and provides avenues for future …
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Estimation and Evaluation of Conditional Asset Pricing Models
Nagel, Stefan - 2010
We find that several recently proposed consumption-based models of stock returns, when evaluated using an optimal set of managed portfolios and the associated model-implied conditional moment restrictions, fail to capture key features of risk premiums in equity markets. To arrive at these...
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Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
Our research examines empirically the age pattern of the implicit value of life revealed from workers' differential wages and job safety pairings. Although aging reduces the number of years of life expectancy, aging can affect the value of life through an effect on planned life-cycle...
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