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of quality information on selected dimensions, to investigate how nonprofit nursing homes react to economic incentives. I …
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Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
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In light of recent evidence, we develop a theory of charitable giving in which donors feel social pressure from a direct solicitation. We show that equilibrium donations are concentrated around a social norm: donors below the norm increase giving while those above the norm reduce it. Despite a...
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In this chapter, we explore why donations are made to nonprofit organizations instead of other institutions or directly … to recipients; how such nonprofit organizations behave; and what is the appropriate public policy toward subsidizing and …, distributional, or excludable public goods. First, we discuss the definition of a private nonprofit organization and delineate some …
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