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We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays arepeated public good game to astrangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations.Subjects in the partners conditioncontribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good...
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In many countries the government supports individuals' and companies' donations dedicated to charity organizations or …
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to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …
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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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Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people's welfare. The role of specific...
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We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...
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fundraising - depend on the intensity of competition among NGOs and on the degree to which they are refinanced by governments. We …' fundraising. Official funding tends to increase administrative costs. Nevertheless, officially financed NGOs spend relatively more … on charitable activities since they are less concerned with collecting private donations through fundraising efforts. …
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-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, we analyze whether noncharitable expenditures for administration, management and fundraising … competition is associated with more efficient foreign aid activities of NGOs, rather than leading to excessive fundraising … charitable activities since they are less concerned with collecting private donations through fundraising efforts. …
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …
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empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …
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