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contributions. Common in charitable fundraising during capital campaigns is seed money, either from a government grant or from a … basis for fundraisers and seeds to charity. The primary assumption that is added to the standard model of privately provided … public goods is simply that the charity has fixed costs. With this it is shown that fundraisers have a natural and important …
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(which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be …
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causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …
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volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … overall charitable donations. We discuss the implications of our experimental results for both theory and policy. …
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We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test …
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We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test …
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causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity’s fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507083
Philanthropy is one of the enduring areas of economic research. Why would people work hard only to give their earnings away? The paper explores the theoretical foundations, as well as the empirical and policy research on philanthropy. This paper reviews over 25 years worth of economic research,...
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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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This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...
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