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Diversity and Donations : The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118128
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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-Colonial Political Centralization
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2014
We report on recent findings of a fruitful research agenda that explores the importance of ethnic-specific traits in shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals identify with their ethnic group as often as with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047023
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122873
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759636
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Tax-Exempt Lobbying : Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
We explore the role of charitable giving as a means of political influence, a channel that has been heretofore unexplored in the political economy literature. For philanthropic foundations associated with Fortune 500 and S&P500 corporations, we show that grants given to charitable organizations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922991
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The Great Recession and Charitable Giving
Meer, Jonathan - 2016
We examine the impact of the Great Recession on charitable giving. We find sharp declines in overall donative behavior that is not accounted for by shocks to income or wealth. These results suggest that overall attitudes towards giving changed over this time period
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978079
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It's Not the Thought that Counts : A Field Experiment on Gift Exchange and Giving at a Public University
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2016
donations to the charity; in this case donor premiums would be ineffective. We conduct a field experiment in conjunction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978516
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Time-Inconsistent Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2016
We motivate this paper with a puzzle. When we asked subjects to give five dollars to charity today, about 30 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979358
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Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits : Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?
Capps, Cory S. - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963743
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Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
Wilhelm, Mark - 2014
The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046180