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Charity and public libraries : does government funding crowd-out donations?
Ferreira Neto, Amir B. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715304
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Don’t Be Ashamed to Say You Didn’t Get Much : Redistributive Effects of Information Disclosure in Donations and Inequity-Aversion in Charitable Giving
Becchetti, Leonardo - 2011
We run a modified dictator game experiment to investigate the determinants of donation choices to philanthropic organizations. We find experimentally that the adoption of a simple form of accountability such as the disclosure of information on the ranking of aggregate contributions received by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124205
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Matching Donations : Subsidizing Charitable Giving in a Field Experiment
Meier, Stephan; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled field experiment. We match the donations of students at the University of Zurich who, each semester, have to decide whether they wish to contribute to two Social Funds. Our results support the hypothesis that a...
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Charitable giving and intermediation
Chlaß, Nadine; Gangadharan, Lata; Jones, Kristy - 2015
Charitable donations are often made through intermediaries who can fund themselves from these same donations. Donors who purchase charitable output through an intermediary incur a principal-agent problem with unobservable prices. We compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without...
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Making an impact? : the relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving ; a laboratory experiment
Metzger, Laura; Günther, Isabel - 2015
A considerable and increasing share of foreign aid stems from private donations. Hence, individual donors can increase social welfare in developing countries by directing their funds to the most effective NGOs. Surprisingly few studies have analyzed whether private donors care about aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305166
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Insuring your donation : an experiment
Buijze, Renate; Engel, Christoph; Hemels, Sigrid - 2015
An increasing fraction of donations is channeled through donation intermediaries. These entities serve multiple purposes, one of which seems to be providing donors with greater certainty: that the donation reaches its intended goal, and that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349366
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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
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A commercial gift for charity
Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Te, Bao; Schippers, Anouk L. - 2016
Commercial firms are increasingly tying the sales of their products with donations to a charitable cause. Apart from a charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report the results of an experiment that investigates...
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Choosing to Give More : Experimental Evidence on Restricted Gifts and Charitable Behavior
Helms, Sara - 2012
nonprofit because of increased management expenses and an inability to reallocate gifts to higher valued uses. We report the …
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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists
Morduch, Jonathan - 2018
exclusive options: a job with a for-profit firm and a lower-paid job with a nonprofit. We construct a model in which a worker … contributions to the nonprofit; this represents the “earning to give” option. By contrast, the occupational choice of a worker … cases, warm glow feelings may push the worker to take a job with the nonprofit, even when it is not optimal for the …
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