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Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well : The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Cassar, Lea - 2017

Prosocial incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives are seen by many firms as an effective way to motivate workers. Recent empirical results seem to support the expectation that prosocial incentive, e.g. in the form of a charitable donations by the firm, can increase...

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Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K

Milligan, Kevin - 2003

schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to address the possibility that unobservable characteristics of citizens …

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Global Collaborative Patents

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2015

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...

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Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lochner, Lance - 2011

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these...

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The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States : Recent Trends and Their Determinants

Jasso, Guillermina - 1998

The objective of this paper is to describe and understand the determinants of changes in the number and quality of new legal immigrants to the United States over the last 25 years. Our main interest is in understanding the behavioral response of potential immigrants to changes in the U.S....

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Science, Philanthropy, and American Leadership

Conn, Robert W.; Cowhey, Peter F.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many different sectors and their combined effect crucially enhances the nation's competitiveness. Philanthropy is an under-appreciated component of this ecosystem, providing $21.5 billion...

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The Impact of Counterfeit Victims in the Victim Marketplace

Ban, Mingyuan; Qian, Yi; Gong, Qiang; Aquino, Karl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Just and efficient allocations of charity have attracted much academic and media attention. The sources of inefficiency …. In particular, when charity resources are scarce, more strategic signallers could rush to emit false victim signals and …, resulting in misplaced charity funds and severe deadweight losses. When there is psychological utility associated with cheating …

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Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Gruber, Jonathan - 2005

Interest in religious organizations as providers of social services has increased dramatically in recent years. Churches in the U.S. were a crucial provider of social services through the early part of the twentieth century, but their role shrank dramatically with the expansion in government...

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Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritance and Estates : Aggregate Evidence from Across States and Time

Bakija, Jon - 2003

One recurring issue in the debate over the estate tax is its impact on the non-profit sector. With the top marginal rate of federal estate tax currently at 49 percent, abolishing the tax would approximately double the price of a charitable bequest relative to an ordinary bequest for the...

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