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Nudging Generosity : Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving

Schulz, Jonathan F. - 2017

treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities …

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Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students

Bergman, Peter - 2017

There is increasing evidence that tax credits for college do not affect college enrollment. This may be because prospective students do not know about tax benefits for credits or because the design of tax credits is not conducive to affecting educational outcomes. We focus on changing the...

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Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth

Dahl, Molly - 2010

While many studies have found that the EITC increases the employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has examined whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the EITC incentives are dead-end jobs or jobs that have the potential for earnings growth. Using a panel of...

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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …

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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010

you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …

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Matched Fundraising : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Huck, Steffen - 2010

We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in … opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly …

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Time vs. Money : The Supply of Voluntary Labor and Charitable Donations Across Europe

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2012

about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that volunteering is a consumption good, we analyze the …

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Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster : Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Brown, Sarah - 2009

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …

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Charitable Giving for Overseas Development : UK Trends Over a Quarter Century

Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John; Pharoah, Cathy; … - 2021

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers : Lessons from a Field Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2015

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most … inform fundraising choices …

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