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de Oliveira, Angela C. M.; Croson, Rachel T. A.; Eckel, … - 2011

-donors. Our results have important implications for the economics of charity and for fundraising practice …One commonly-used strategy in charitable fundraising is sharing names and contact information of donors between …

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Keep Charity Charitable

Galle, Brian D. - 2010

This Article responds to recent claims, most prominently by Malani, Posner, and Henderson, that much of the work of the charitable sector should be farmed out to for-profit firms. For-profit firms are said to be more efficient because they can offer higher-powered incentives to cut costs. I...

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Good Will Hunting : Do Disasters Make Us More Charitable?

Cevik, Serhan - 2023

Humans are usually compassionate, caring and empathetic toward others, but are we really hardwired for altruism when a disaster hits? There is evidence that people exposed to natural disasters tend to behave more philanthropically, but most studies rely on small-scale surveys and experimental...

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Evidence from an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients : Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hypothesis

Fong, Christina M. - 2007

This paper investigates the determinants of generosity in an experiment on charity to real-life welfare recipients. It …

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UK Charity Donations : Government Grants and Crowding-In

Khanna, Jyoti; Sandler, Todd M. - 1998

-in. Price coefficients are negative, and fund-raising is a positive stimulant. Legacies are viewed by donors as a substitute to …

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Spillovers in the Charitable Market : Evidence from Reputation Shocks

Xu, Derrick - 2022

This paper provides novel evidence on the spillover effect of negative reputation shocks affecting a charity on … measures of textual similarity between charities' mission statements. I find that a negative reputation shock to a charity … increases donations to other charities that share similar objectives. This finding is consistent with the charity market being a …

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The Evolving Distribution of Giving in the United States

Duquette, Nicolas - 2019

This paper computes the share of all household giving accounted for by the American households donating the largest amounts over the 1960–2012 period. The share of donations accounted for by a minority of top donors has risen sharply over this period. This rising concentration is driven by...

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'Setting a Price' for Charitable Giving Increases Donations

Kraft-Todd, Gordon T.; Norton, Michael I.; Rand, David G. - 2017

Many people give to charity, but they typically give small amounts. This suggests that the psychological benefit of …

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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving

Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022

unexplored. While theory suggests a link, the sign of the effect is ambiguous due to opposing income and substitution effects …

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Doing Well by Doing Good? – Venture Capital Mission Investments by Charitable Nonprofit Foundations and University Endowments

Kremer, Maximilian; Achleitner, Ann‐Kristin; Braun, Reiner - 2022

We research the preferences and outcomes of direct venture capital investment of charitable foundations and university endowments in the United States and the United Kingdom. Our analysis provides evidence that foundations' and endowments' venture capital direct investments are clustered in...

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