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A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments : A Mystery-Shopping Approach

Dube, Oeindrila; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Many government services are provided at the state level such as unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and SNAP. Given the lack of competition, a natural worry is that customer support provided by states for these services is less than adequate. While there are many different measures of how a state...

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Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015

Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks … distribution program. This led 17 percent of treated locations to switch distributors. Introducing the possibility of outsourcing … cheating were also more likely to block the outsourcing process. We find no effect on price or quality of providing information …

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Crowding In with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks

Kotchen, Matthew - 2019

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...

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Every Day is Earth Day : Evidence on the Long-term Impact of Environmental Activism

Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2020

We explore the importance of activism in the context of Earth Day. We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a community on April 22, 1970, is associated 10 to 20...

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Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts : Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment

Lange, Andreas - 2009

Despite the increasing use by charities, significant uncertainty exists about optimal online fundraising mechanisms, especially when large donor pools show substantial heterogeneities. We use an online natural field experiment with over 700,000 subjects to test theory on price discounts and show...

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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2008

Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...

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Working for Nothing : The Supply of Volunteer Labor

Freeman, Richard B. - 1996

Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This paper shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the U.S.; that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time; that standard labor supply explanations of volunteering account for only a minor part...

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Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations

Brown, Alexander L. - 2013

Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the donor's opportunity cost? Previous models of altruism that focus on the overall impact of a gift cannot rationalize this behavior, despite its prevalence. We develop a model that relaxes this assumption,...

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The Impact of School Spending on Civic Engagement : Evidence from School Finance Reforms

Asker, Erdal; Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A primary rationale for public provision of K-12 education and state financing of school spending is that education fosters civic engagement and the development of social capital. However, limited evidence exists on whether and how school spending affects civic engagement. Virtually all studies...

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Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa

Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite the low levels of taxation and public good provision in Africa, I provide evidence that a large proportion of Africans prefer lower taxation and fewer public goods. This cannot be explained by standard arguments about problems of accountability, governance or state capacity. Instead I...

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