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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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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2011

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...

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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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Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2020

Do new societal needs increase charitable giving or simply reallocate a fixed supply of donations? We study this question using IRS datasets and the natural experiment of deadly tornadoes. Among ZIP Codes located more than 20 miles away from a tornado's path, donations by households increase by...

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the charities who, after getting the grant, reduce efforts of fund-raising … (fund-raising crowd out)? This is the first paper to separate these two effects. Using a panel of more than 8,000 charities …, we find that crowding out is significant, at about 72 percent. We find this crowding out is due primarily to reduced fund-raising …

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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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The Great Recession and Charitable Giving

Meer, Jonathan - 2016

We examine the impact of the Great Recession on charitable giving. We find sharp declines in overall donative behavior that is not accounted for by shocks to income or wealth. These results suggest that overall attitudes towards giving changed over this time period

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