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This paper studies the effect of information about a charity's size on individuals' donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the opportunity to donate for various charitable purposes. The results show that if subjects are...
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Die Zukunft der Solidarität wird immer wieder in der Zerfallsperspektive thematisiert. Wenn Solidarität „nationale Solidarität“ meint, so kann es mit dem behaupteten Niedergang des Nationalstaats auch durchaus zur Schwächung bestimmter solidarischer Verhaltensweisen kommen. Doch...
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We provide a solution to the free-rider problem in the provision of a public good. To this end we define a biased indirect contribution game which provides the efficient amount of the public good in non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. No confiscatory taxes or other means of coercion are used. We...
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Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...
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The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common...
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that there is asymmetric information about charities' activities and their effectiveness, doing volunteer work may serve as …
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We provide a solution to the free-rider problem in the provision of a public good. To this end we define a biased indirect contribution game which provides the efficient amount of the public good in non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. No confiscatory taxes or other means of coercion are used. We...
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residents of districts that receive assistance from religious charities are more likely to support Hamas, even though this … charities only target districts and households that support them, testing for reverse causality, by regressing charity support …
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, countries seeking to identify finance for nature-based solutions must navigate complex fragmented terms and language, as well as … a wide array of public and private finance actors. Such fragmentation has practical implications. African countries face …. Adding to the complexity, finance for nature-based solutions often combines public and private financing. So far, blended …
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to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts positively influence contributions in the field, but matching gifts …
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