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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being : Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
Aknin, Lara B. - 2010
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that prosocial spending is...
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Pivotal or Popular : The Effects of Social Information and Feeling Pivotal on Civic Actions
Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the combined effects of popularity and feelings of being important to reaching a goal by testing how people react to situations in which their own behavior is pivotal or not, as well as the popularity of the action. We conduct a laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the...
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Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior
Andor, Mark Andreas; Cox, James C.; Gerster, Andreas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate how locus of control beliefs - the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their life to themselves as opposed to outside factors - affect prosocial behavior and the private provision of public goods. We begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how...
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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities
Andreoni, James - 2010
When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...
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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment
Fong, Christina M. - 2009
firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing …
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Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity : Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
Rondeau, Daniel - 2008
This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...
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Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits : Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?
Capps, Cory - 2017
nonprofit hospitals depends on the link between market power and charity care provision. To test the link, we use three measures … of charity care--two dollar-denominated and one based on service volume--to study charity care provision by for … no evidence that nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to provide more charity care, or to offer …
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Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2006
In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television (and radio), I exploit plausibly exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466101
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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics : Evidence from Indonesia
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the … effects are shaped by greater demand for religion in government but not by greater piety among the electorate. Waqf assets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480803
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Diversity and Donations : The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point...
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