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Crowding in with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks
Kotchen, Matthew - 2019
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...
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Every Day is Earth Day : Evidence on the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Activism
Hungerman, Daniel M.; Moorthy, Vivek S. - 2022
We explore the importance of activism in the context of Earth Day. We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a community on April 22, 1970, is associated 10 to 20...
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Working for Nothing : The Supply of Volunteer Labor
Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This paper shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the U.S.; that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time; that standard labor supply explanations of volunteering account for only a minor part...
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Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts : Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment
Lange, Andreas; Stocking, Andrew J. - 2021
Despite the increasing use by charities, significant uncertainty exists about optimal online fundraising mechanisms, especially when large donor pools show substantial heterogeneities. We use an online natural field experiment with over 700,000 subjects to test theory on price discounts and show...
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Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations
Brown, Alexander L. - 2013
Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the donor's opportunity cost? Previous models of altruism that focus on the overall impact of a gift cannot rationalize this behavior, despite its prevalence. We develop a model that relaxes this assumption,...
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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2013
Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...
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Expected Home Ownership and Real Wealth Accumulation of Youth
Haurin, Donald R. - 2012
This paper describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real … for a down payment. Using a panel data set for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990 we find that the combined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756067
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The Height of Us-Born Non-Hispanic Children and Adolescents Ages 2-19, Born 1942-2002 in the Nhanes Samples
Komlos, John - 2011
We examine the height of non-Hispanic US-born children born 1942-2002 on the basis of all NHES and NHANES data sets available. We use the CDC 2000 reference values to convert height into Height-for-Age z-scores stratified by gender. We decompose deviations from the reference values into an...
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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow" : A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
Brezina, Timothy - 2010
contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Attanasio, Orazio - 2010
Youth unemployment in Latin America is exceptionally high, as much as 50% among the poor. Vocational training may be … of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of …
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