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 …

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 …

firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing …

. Specifically, we study provision of charity care by private, nonprofit hospitals. We demonstrate that In the absence of large … positive income effects on charity care supply, convex preferences for the nonprofit hospital imply crowding out by other … rivalry on the supply of outpatient plus inpatient charity care, but not when the analysis is confined to inpatient care …