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Making an impact? : the relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving ; a laboratory experiment

Metzger, Laura; Günther, Isabel - 2015

analyzed whether private donors care about aid effectiveness when they donate to an international charity. In a laboratory …

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Charitable bequests and wealth at death

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John - 2012

Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...

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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment

Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel - 2014

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test …

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A commercial gift for charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Te, Bao; Schippers, Anouk L. - 2016

charitable motive, offering these charity-linked bundles could be a strategic instrument for firms to increase profits. We report …, complete markets, and absent transaction cost, selling charity-linked bundles should not be profitable even when consumers are … significantly higher profits. No such effect is observed when the donation is limited to 2%. Offering charity-linked bundles …

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Choosing to Give More : Experimental Evidence on Restricted Gifts and Charitable Behavior

Helms, Sara - 2012

nonprofit because of increased management expenses and an inability to reallocate gifts to higher valued uses. We report the …

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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2012

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The European Foundation Proposal : An Effective, Efficient and Feasible Solution for Tax Issues Related to Cross Border Charitable Giving and Fundraising?

Hemels, Sigrid - 2012

This paper which was written for the 2012 EATLP conference ‘Taxation of Charities' (1 June 2012, Rotterdam) analyses whether the Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Foundation (Fundatio Europaea, in short FE) provides for an effective, efficient and feasible...

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Four Revolutions in Global Philanthropy

Martin, Maximilian - 2013

The paper identifies and analyzes the four main fault lines which will influence the next decades of global philanthropy. All are related to what we can refer to as "the market revolution in global philanthropy". As global philanthropy moves beyond grantmaking, into investment approaches that...

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Taxation of Charities in the Netherlands

Hemels, Sigrid - 2014

In the Netherlands, special tax incentives apply for so called ‘public benefit pursuing entities' (hereinafter PBEs). Currently, the Dutch tax authorities have registered 50.000 PBEs. The main criterion is not whether the activities or the entities are not for profit, but whether these...

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Institutional Pressures to Provide Social Benefits and the Earnings Management Behavior of Nonprofits : Evidence from the US Hospital Industry

Vansant, Brian - 2015

benefit: charity care. I argue that institutional pressures on nonprofits to provide higher levels of social benefits imply …

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