Although art museums do not pay any substantial taxes, they are greatly affected by various U.S. tax rules. The … individual receives a deduction for donations of art to museums, the estate gets a deduction for bequests, and the corporation … gets a deduction for charitable gifts. Art museums also are not taxed on investment income or on some "related" business …

limit the discretion of managers. In a study of U.S. art museums, I find that this practice has grown significantly in …, museums shift their cost structures away from administration and toward program services, and they exhibit very high savings ….S. art museums may represent a reaction by contributors to the industry's high rates of financial distress, weak boards of …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …

such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …

This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …

, and Szembrot, 2014), which uses self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey …

summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …

This paper examines non-response in a large government survey. The response rate for the American Time Use Survey (ATUS … of estimates are broadly similar. The paper ends with a discussion of survey design features, their effect on the types …