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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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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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The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector : The Case of Libraries

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1981

public sector. Our initial focus is on public libraries because considerable effort has been devoted to conceptualizing … library productivity measures and because of the availability of data to implement the framework. Preliminary estimates are … presented based upon data from 71 municipal libraries in Massachusetts. We conclude by indicating the direction that our future …

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Public Libraries and Labor Markets

Getz, Malcolm - 1979

Differences in labor compensation across 31 large public library systems are examined based on the author's interview …

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