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Presidential Approval Crowds Out Charitable Donations

Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Melios, Georgios - 2022

A large literature in public economics seeks to answer whether government activity crowds out charitable donations. The empirical evidence is mixed, however, and prior estimates range from large crowding out effects to small crowding in effects. To resolve this inconsistency, we consider that...

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How Charitable Organizations Influence Federal Tax Policy : 'Rent-Seeking' Charities or Virtuous Politicians?

Knauer, Nancy J. - 2010

Tax-exempt charitable organizations exert considerable influence over Congress, the Department of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service in matters dealing with exemption from federal income tax and the tax deductibility of charitable contributions. This Article uses both public choice...

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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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Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace

Lent, Max van - 2017

We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...

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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign

Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021

The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …

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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …

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