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Using a newly collected dataset on inquisitorial activity for seven regions, fourteen provinces and 947 municipalities, I analyze the long-term economic consequences of the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834). I show that inquisitorial activity is negatively associated to regional and provincial...
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between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of … donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …
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between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of … donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …
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between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of … donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …
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causes. In recent years, individual charity fundraising through these platforms has become a mass activity. Using JustGiving …, the UK’s biggest charity fundraising platform, 21 million people have raised £1.5 billion for over 13,000 charities and … causes since the website was set up in 2001. Recent figures suggest that online donations are still a relatively small part …
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between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of … donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …
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Many Americans donate little or nothing to charity. Our social environment is the cause, not human nature. Experiments … voluntary donation registry to publicize the proportion of income that individuals donate to charity. Although participation …
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This paper links incentives posed by Judeo-Christian beliefs to economic behavior. Tests support strength for the links even when likely bias favors the alternative one would otherwise expect. Model results explain why strength of faith is irrelevant to behavior in some belief archetypes but...
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tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims … to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean …
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