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We report results of an experiment designed to assess the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the pattern and level of charitable contributions of donors. The study includes an experimental measure of charitable giving and targets three charities: the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and Oxfam...
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This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
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cluster and the circumstances under which such clustering is socially undesirable. NGOs compete through fundraising for …-issue donors is relatively large, and when the fundraising technology is sufficiently efficient. Moreover, this situation is … socially inefficient when the cost of fundraising takes intermediate values and the motivation for donors' giving is relatively …
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Charitable contributions surge in the wake of major disasters. The victims of each disaster regardless of size are victims. Through our tax code, Congress has inconsistently permitted relief to such victims. Following some disasters, such as 9/11, Congress has expanded they limits placed on the...
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We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
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