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The Gates Effect in Public Goods Experiments: How Donations Flow to the Recipients Favored by the Wealthy

Corazzini, Luca; Cotton, Christopher; Longo, Enrico; … - 2021

Experiments involving multiple public goods with contribution thresholds capture many features of charitable giving environments in which donors try to coordinate their contributions across various potential recipients. We present results from a laboratory experiment that introduces endowment...

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Charitable giving for overseas development: UK trends over a quarter century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2008

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

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The Gates Effect in public goods experiments: How donors focus on the recipients favored by the wealthy

Corazzini, Luca; Cotton, Christopher; Longo, Enrico; … - 2021

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Board of directors and industry determinants of corporate philanthropy

Cha, Wonsuk; Abebe, Michael A. - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 37 (2016) 5, pp. 672-688

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the current research on corporate philanthropy and organizational … social background of board members, in turn influencing the allocation of resources to corporate philanthropy. Hierarchical … the number of female board directors and the level of corporate philanthropy. In addition, the results showed significant …

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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study

Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Ben; Ray, … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015

Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive impact on individual donations to public radio. In this study, we attempted to replicate their results, however, we found no evidence of that social comparisons affected donation...

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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study

Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Benjamin; … - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2015

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Effects of the price of charitable giving: Evidence from an online crowdfunding platform

Meer, Jonathan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 103 (2014) C, pp. 113-124

A long literature has examined the effects of the price of giving – that is, the amount an individual must give for one dollar to accrue to the charitable activity itself – on donative behavior. We use data from DonorsChoose.org, an online platform linking teachers with prospective donors...

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Donative behavior at the end of life

Meer, Jonathan; Rosen, Harvey S. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 92 (2013) C, pp. 192-201

A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate...

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Explanation of the donor decision-making process in the Czech Republic through a combination of influences of individual motives

Hladká, Marie; Hyánek, Vladimír - In: European Financial and Accounting Journal 11 (2016) 1, pp. 23-37

Motivation represents a foundation corestone on which analyses in a number of the humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen motivation as connected with the act of giving, trying to interpret it in the context of the neoclassical economics assumptions. On...

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Increasing autonomy in charitable giving : the effect of choosing the number of recipients on donations

Fehérová, Martina; Heger, Stephanie; Péliová, Jana; … - In: Economics letters 217 (2022), pp. 1-3

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