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 …

This paper considers the public policy favoring testamentary bequests to charity and offers a critique of that policy …. Public policy favors testamentary bequests to charity. At least, that is the claim of numerous courts and legislative bodies … of an undue influence, incapacity, or tortuous interference with inheritance claim. Paradoxically, courts and legislative …