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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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Violence Against Women : A Cross-cultural Analysis for Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2016

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … determine social norms about gender roles, family structures and intrafamily violence which persist even when the initial … contemporary violence. Second, women's contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to …

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

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 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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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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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics : Evidence from Indonesia

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

This paper explores the foundations of religious influence in politics and society. We show that an important Islamic institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the early 1960s, rural elites transferred large...

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Are PILOTs Property Taxes for Nonprofits?

Fei, Fan - 2015

Nonprofit charitable organizations are exempt from most taxes, including local property taxes, but U.S. cities and towns increasingly request that nonprofits make payments in lieu of taxes (known as PILOTs). Strictly speaking, PILOTs are voluntary, though nonprofits may feel pressure to make...

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