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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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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...
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Is Charitable Giving a Zero Sum Game? - The Effect of Competition Between Charities on Giving Behavior
Schmitz, Jan - 2020
The competition for donations between charities is tough. Yet, little is known about how giving behavior is affected by competition between charities. Do people have a need to satisfy their demand for giving by contributing to a particular charity? Or can the demand for doing good be satisfied...
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An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck
Bar-El, Ronen; Hatsor, Limor; Snir, Avichai - 2023 - Last revision: February 23, 2023
We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of …
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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, an d donor's trust: experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2018
In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group, participants presented with a quality certificate chose higher donations by around 10% and reported higher trust towards the same charity . The choice of donation values over...
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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust : experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2017
In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality certificate, participants chose higher donations by approximately 10%. This effect is significant for donations out of prize money and actual own money donations, and not...
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Charity Compacts : A Privatization Model for Welfare Programs
Larson, Sven R. - 2011
In public policy discourse, the role of government is not universally accepted, but tends to have widespread support. Most of those who want smaller government with fewer programs accede to the notion that government is here to stay in, e.g., care for the poor. This paper challenges the role of...
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Quality Certifications for Nonprofits, Charitable Giving, and Donor's Trust : Experimental Evidence
Adena, Maja - 2017
In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality certificate, participants chose higher donations by approximately 10%. This effect is significant for donations out of prize money and actual own money donations, and not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957262
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Thoughts and Prayers - Do They Crowd out Charity Donations?
Thunstrom, Linda - 2019
experiments with Red Cross donations to hurricane victims. Consistent with our model, our main experiment finds prayers reduce … donations, while thoughts do not. Two follow-up experiments find results are robust to alternative hurricane locations but may … wake of public catastrophes (in two out of three experiments they crowd out donations), which highlights the importance of …
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Do Tax Incentives Affect Charitable Contributions? Evidence from Public Charities’ Reported Revenues
Duquette, Nicolas - 2020
This paper estimates the effect of the charitable contribution tax deduction on charities' donation revenue from charities' tax filings. A one percent increase in the tax cost of giving causes charitable receipts to fall by about four percent, an effect three times larger the consensus in the...
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