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Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
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because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the charities who, after getting the grant, reduce efforts of fund-raising … (fund-raising crowd out)? This is the first paper to separate these two effects. Using a panel of more than 8,000 charities …, we find that crowding out is significant, at about 72 percent. We find this crowding out is due primarily to reduced fund-raising …
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firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing …
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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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nonprofit hospitals depends on the link between market power and charity care provision. To test the link, we use three measures … of charity care—two dollar-denominated and one based on service volume—to study charity care provision by for-profit and … evidence that nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to provide more charity care, or to offer more …
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awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …
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largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the … charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over 6000 charities in Canada, measured for up to 15 years, to provide … from other charities and charitable foundations, and donations gained from special fundraising activities, like galas or …
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We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point...
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This paper considers substituting one charitable activity for another in the context of religious practice. I examine the impact of the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal on both Catholic and non-Catholic religiosity. I find that the scandal led to a 2-million-member fall in the Catholic...
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spending crowds out the charity that ensues from these forces only modestly. Moreover, people's donations tend to rise when …
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