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How Risky Is It to Give or Receive a Bribe? A Ranking of 56 Countries
McGee, Robert W.; Petrides, Yanira - 2022
The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. Data were collected in 56 countries. Participants were asked how risky is it to...
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Chapter 37 Philanthropy
Katz, Stanley N. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1299-1321). 2006
fairly limited. Much of the role of foundations was assumed by the federal government as it expanded in power and scope after … World War II, often adopting the foundation modus operandi as its own. Partly as a result, foundations began to support the … these fields. Recent changes in the foundation sector include the growth in the number of new, very well endowed foundations …
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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations : A Regional Perspective from the United States
Anteby, Michel; Hyman, Mikell - 2013
Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors’ behaviors, procuring organizations’ roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in which to examine this...
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Constraint on the Control Benefits of Brokerage : Evidence from U.S. Venture Capital Fundraising
Rider, Christopher I. - 2009
This paper investigates how the control benefits of a broker’s structural position are constrained by the perceived quality of actors a broker may represent in an exchange. I propose that brokers prefer to represent high quality actors but also that the value an actor places on representation...
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Relational warm glow and giving in social group
Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 2014
We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships 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...
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Relational altruism and giving in social groups
Scharf, Kimberly A.; Smith, Sarah - 2016
Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate (i) a positive relationship between social group size and the number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the size of individual donations; (iii) no...
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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2014
We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050470
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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2016
Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate:(i) a positive relationship between social group size and the number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the size of individual donations; (iii) no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986651
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Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi
Haenni, Simon; Lichand, Guilherme - 2020
Do people conform to social norms at least partly to signal their social preferences? Using a vignette experiment, we find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are perceived as less altruistic, reciprocal, and...
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Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi
Haenni, Simon; Lichand, Guilherme - 2021 - Revised version
In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married before they reach that legal age. We document that social image concerns are likely an important mechanism behind that wedge: where the prevalence of child marriage is high,...
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