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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

Fong, Christina M. - 2007

We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...

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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2011

quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the … implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid quality, aid quantity, and social agendas of different types of … the tsunami. Different organizational structures result in significantly different qualities of hard aid, differential …

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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance

Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

prioritize aid to the poorest regions and mobile subscribers. We evaluate this approach by studying Novissi, Togo's flagship … disbursed millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief aid. Our analysis compares outcomes - including exclusion errors, total social …

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Can the West Save Africa?

Easterly, William - 2008

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … failed ideas, we see a cycle in aid ideas in many areas in Africa, with ideas going out of fashion only to come back again …

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The Fiscal Cost of Hurricanes : Disaster Aid Versus Social Insurance

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016

hurricane. The present value of this increase significantly exceeds that of direct disaster aid. This implies, among other …

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A General Rationale for a Governmental Role in the Relief of Large Risks

Shavell, Steven - 2014

The government often provides relief against large risks, such as disasters. A simple, general rationale for this role of government is considered here that applies even when private contracting to share risks is not subject to market imperfections. Specifically, the optimal private sharing of...

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Charitable Giving Responses to Education Budgets

Meer, Jonathan; Tajali, Hedieh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do changes in government spending affect voluntary contributions to those recipients? We examine how changes in K-12 education budgets impact donations to teachers using data from DonorsChoose.org, an online crowdfunding platform for public school teachers to raise money for their classrooms....

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Identification in Tax-Price Regression Models : The Case of Charitable Giving

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 1982

In this paper we use an instrumental variable estimator to exploit sources of independent variation, which allows unbiased estimation of the tax-price elasticity under more general conditions. The estimator is applied to the demand for charitable giving. A charitable giving equation is an...

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Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States

Petrova, Maria - 2020

We provide evidence that individuals substitute between political contributions and charitable contributions, using micro data from the American Red Cross and Federal Election Commission. First, we find that foreign natural disasters, which are positive shocks to charitable giving, crowd out...

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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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