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(Un)Informed charitable giving
Journal of Public Economics, 2013Abstract Evidence suggests little informed giving. To understand this behavior, we examine voluntary provision of a discrete public good with independent private values that can be ascertained at a cost. We find that an individual who considers a smaller contribution is less likely to learn her value, and thus the percentage of informed giving ...
Silvana Krasteva, Huseyin Yildirim
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Management Science, 2018
How does priming identity affect charitable giving? We show that individuals are more likely to donate when a facet of their identity associated with a norm of generosity is primed in an appeal. In large charitable giving field experiments run by the American Red Cross, appeals that prime an individual’s identity as a previous donor to the charity or ...
Judd B. Kessler, Katherine L. Milkman
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How does priming identity affect charitable giving? We show that individuals are more likely to donate when a facet of their identity associated with a norm of generosity is primed in an appeal. In large charitable giving field experiments run by the American Red Cross, appeals that prime an individual’s identity as a previous donor to the charity or ...
Judd B. Kessler, Katherine L. Milkman
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Charitable Giving Responses to Education Budgets
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021AbstractDo changes in government spending affect voluntary contributions to those recipients? We examine how changes in K‐12 education budgets impact donations to teachers using data from DonorsChoose.org, an online crowdfunding platform for public school teachers to raise money.
Jonathan Meer, Hedieh Tajali
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Charitable Giving and Charitable Gambling: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
National Tax Journal, 2004 Recent decades have witnessed a rapid increase in charitable gaming. Some have suggested that this means that conventional donations to charity will fall. In this paper, we use a rich Canadian data set to examine the relationship between direct contributions to charities and those made indirectly via charitable games.
Apinunmahakul, Amornrat +1 more
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The complexities of charitable giving
BMJ, 2015Charitable giving allows people to give to perceived health priorities at home and overseas and is to be encouraged. The emphasis placed on it is one of the more attractive features of major religions. It also helps to foster the idea of a wider community, perhaps one reason why poorer folk are comparatively generous. Does McCartney believe …
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The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1994
Abstract. This research examines the “age‐donation” profile of gift‐giving alumniai a large public university, based on a pooled micro‐data random sample of 4,242 alumni (1926/27‐1989/90 graduates) who gave cash gifts during the 1975/76‐1989/90 fiscal years.
Albert Ade. Okunade +2 more
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Abstract. This research examines the “age‐donation” profile of gift‐giving alumniai a large public university, based on a pooled micro‐data random sample of 4,242 alumni (1926/27‐1989/90 graduates) who gave cash gifts during the 1975/76‐1989/90 fiscal years.
Albert Ade. Okunade +2 more
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Charitable Giving And Taxation
2001Abstract This chapter examines the restnct10ns on giving to charity by individuals, 19.01 trustees, and companies, and examines the fiscal consequences of charitable giving. Value added tax is afforded separate treatment at the end of the chapter, since its application does not distinguish between individual and corporate donors.
Peter Luxton, Judith Hill
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Exploring Gender Differences in Charitable Giving
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2016Women’s philanthropy has drawn much attention during recent years, mostly in studies from the United States or the United Kingdom. Relevant issues are to what extent gender differences in charitable giving exist in another national context and how these differences can be explained.
De Wit, Arjen, Bekkers, René
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Does income inequality increase charitable giving?
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2015AbstractDo households react to changes in the distribution of income in their localities by changing their charitable giving? The theoretical prediction of the effects of income inequality on giving is unclear. We study how changes in income inequality measured at the neighbourhood and municipality levels affect charitable giving by households in ...
Payne, A. Abigail, Smith, Justin
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Volunteerism and charitable giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2006AbstractGifts of Time and Money: The Role of Charity in America's Communities, by Arthur C. Brooks (ed.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Little.eld, 2005. 224 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
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