Donors often use overhead ratio—the percentage of a non-profit's revenues that go toward general administrative and fundraising costs—to decide to whom and how much to give. However, because charity output is difficult to measure, the validity of using overhead as a heuristic to decide...

This article examines the external and organizational factors behind the coalition dynamics of two labour unions representing a different mix of employment contract types – temporary and permanent – that led the 2007 Irregular Workers Movement in South Korea. Drawing on semi-structured...

Does fear cause us to “circle the wagons” and favor those in our in-group? Or does fear of the “other” cause us to recognize our common humanity and become more charitable to those we might otherwise consider outsiders? The measurement of this effect is confounded by the fact that some...

Does fear cause us to "circle the wagons" and favor those in our in-group? Or does fear of the "other" cause us to recognize our common humanity and become more charitable to those we might otherwise consider outsiders? The measurement of this effect is confounded by the fact that some groups...

We establish a novel measurement of nonprofit organization ideology using semantic text analysis and validate it with a large-scale online experiment. On average, health- related nonprofits as well as education-related organizations, including US universities, are the most left-leaning...

"Have economists neglected trust? The economy is fundamentally a network of relationships built on mutual expectations. More than that, trust is the glue that holds civilization together. Every time we interact with another person-to make a purchase, work on a project, or share a living space-we...