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Choosing to Give More : Experimental Evidence on Restricted Gifts and Charitable Behavior
Helms, Sara - 2012
It is common for charitable organizations to allow donors to place material restrictions on their gifts. Nonprofits and … fundraisers generally believe that allowing gift restrictions will increase donation revenue. Restricted gifts are costly to the … nonprofit because of increased management expenses and an inability to reallocate gifts to higher valued uses. We report the …
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New Evidence on Charitable Gift Restrictions
Thornton, Jeremy P. - 2016
that option. This result implies that restricted gifts are both an important tool for increasing donations and may be less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008067
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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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Motivational Crowding Out Effects in Charitable Giving : Experimental Evidence
Müller, Stephan - 2018
This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment isolates alternative explanations for the decline of giving such as strategic considerations of decision makers. Moreover, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926525
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Motivational crowding out effects in charitable giving : experimental evidence
Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2018
This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment isolates alternative explanations for the decline of giving such as strategic considerations of decision makers. Moreover, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796772
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Matching donations without crowding out? : some theoretical considerations and a field experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2015
towards a different project. Treatments with unconditional lead gifts serve as controls. Similar to findings from the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280712
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Matching donations without crowding out? : some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2016 - (Revised March 2016)
Is there a way of matching donations that avoids crowding out? We introduce a novel matching method where the matched amount is allocated to a different project, present some simple theoretical considerations that predict reduced crowding out or more crowding in (depending on the degree of...
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Thoughts and Prayers - Do They Crowd out Charity Donations?
Thunstrom, Linda - 2019
For centuries, scholars have examined what motivates prosocial behavior. In the U.S., prosocial behavior is routinely accompanied by thoughts and prayers. Yet, the impact on prosocial behavior of such gestures is unknown. We examine how thoughts and prayers affect charity donations to victims of...
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Matching donations without crowding out? : some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2017
Is there a way of matching donations that avoids crowding out? We introduce a novel matching method where the matched amount is allocated to a different project, present some simple theoretical considerations that predict reduced crowding out or crowding in (depending on the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626745
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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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