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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Altmann, Steffen - 2015

We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...

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A Study of Incentives in Charitable Fundraising

Haruvy, Ernan; Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T. L. - 2021

motivators) are mediated by effort to affect fundraising outcomes. This integration sheds light on crowding out between the two … types of incentives as well the drivers of fundraising outcomes, specifically effort and donations. This study examines … observed over time.A field experiment is conducted over a two-month period, involving an online fundraising campaign with over …

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Evidence on Need-Sensitive Giving Behavior : An Experimental Approach to the Acknowledgment of Needs

Traub, Stefan; Schwaninger, Manuel; Paetzel, Fabian; … - 2021

We utilize a modified dictator game to analyze whether information about the need of recipients affects dictator giving behavior. Need information is presented as objective information about the recipients' living circumstances (income, public transfers, and travel time to the lab) and...

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Simulating Nonlinear Tax Rules and Nonstandard Behavior : An Application to the Tax Treatment of Charitable Contributions

Feldstein, Martin S.; Lindsey, Lawrence B. - 2021

This paper examines how the tax simulation method can be extended to incorporate nonlinear budget constraints and nonstandard economic behavior. We simulate the effect of extending the charitable deduction to nonitemizers and study the effect of alternative "floors". The specific simulations...

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Pay or Pray? The Impact of Charitable Subsidies on Religious Attendance

Gruber, Jonathan - 2021

The economic argument for subsidizing charitable giving relies on the positive externalities of charitable activities, particularly from the religious institutions that are the largest recipients of giving. But the net external effects of subsidies to religious giving will also depend on a...

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