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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021

Many factors including incentive-pay, powerful shareholders, and takeover threats push for-profits managers towards maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance institutions, and the only check on managers are...

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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

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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A Renaissance Instrument to Support Nonprofits : The Sale of Private Chapels in Florentine Churches

Nelson, Jonathan Katz; Zeckhauser, Richard J. - 2021

Catholic churches in Renaissance Florence supported themselves overwhelmingly from the contributions of wealthy citizens. The sale of private chapels within churches to individuals was a significant source of church funds, and facilitated a church construction boom. Chapel sales offered three...

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Altruism, Rivalry and Crowding-Out in the Nonprofit Firm's Supply of Charity Services : the Case of Hospitals

Frank, Richard G.; Salkever, David S. - 2014

This paper extends previous research on Individuals' supply of charitable donations to the behavior of nonprofit firms. 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,...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet - 2022

We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global “best practices” including comprehensive assessments, detailed...

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

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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Avoiding the Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving

Andreoni, James - 2011

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …

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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

Lacetera, Nicola - 2011

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate, and more so the higher the value of the rewards....

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Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada : New Knowledge from the North

Andreoni, James - 2011

largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the … from other charities and charitable foundations, and donations gained from special fundraising activities, like galas or …

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