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Identification in Tax-Price Regression Models : The Case of Charitable Giving

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 1982

In this paper we use an instrumental variable estimator to exploit sources of independent variation, which allows unbiased estimation of the tax-price elasticity under more general conditions. The estimator is applied to the demand for charitable giving. A charitable giving equation is an...

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Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States

Petrova, Maria - 2020

We provide evidence that individuals substitute between political contributions and charitable contributions, using micro data from the American Red Cross and Federal Election Commission. First, we find that foreign natural disasters, which are positive shocks to charitable giving, crowd out...

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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...

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Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2020

Do new societal needs increase charitable giving or simply reallocate a fixed supply of donations? We study this question using IRS datasets and the natural experiment of deadly tornadoes. Among ZIP Codes located more than 20 miles away from a tornado's path, donations by households increase by...

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Social Finance

Kuchler, Theresa - 2020

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...

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The influence of message appeal, social norms and donation social context on charitable giving : investigating the role of cultural tightness-looseness

Siemens, Jennifer Christie; Raymond, Mary Anne; Choi, Yunsik - In: Journal of marketing theory and practice : JMTP 28 (2020) 2, pp. 187-195

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The social dilemma of big data : donating personal data to promote social welfare

Hillebrand, Kirsten; Hornuf, Lars - 2021

When using digital devices and services, individuals provide their personal data to organizations in exchange for gains in various domains of life. Organizations use these data to run technologies such as smart assistants, augmented reality, and robotics. Most often, these organizations seek to...

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Coming back and giving back : transposition, institutional actors, and the paradox of peripheral influence

Luo, Jiao; Chen, Jia; Chen, Dongjie - In: Administrative science quarterly : ASQ 66 (2021) 1, pp. 133-176

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Tax-exempt lobbying : corporate philanthropy as a tool for political influence

Bertrand, Marianne; Bombardini, Matilde; Fisman, Raymond; … - In: The American economic review 110 (2020) 7, pp. 2065-2102

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A gift of belief : philanthropy and the forging of Pittsburgh

Buechel, Kathleen W. (ed.) - 2021

"Philanthropy has long been associated with images of industrial titans and wealthy families. In Pittsburgh, long a …-class citizens who uplifted their neighbors remain untold. For the first time, these two portraits of Pittsburgh philanthropy … with sectarian philanthropy in the nineteenth century, moving to scientific philanthropy in the early twentieth century and …

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