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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"charitable giving"”.
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Charitable Giving: Motivations, Deterrents & Consequences
<p>Charitable giving has been suggested to be beneficial to everyone involved in the activity. This study has shown charitable giving can be costly to involved participants. Motives, deterrents and outcomes of charitable giving will be discussed in this paper. Implications for future practice and …
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Charitable Giving to Distant Others: An extended theory of planned behaviour model
… make the choices they do when it comes to charitable giving has interested a diverse group of research scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. While a broad body of literature on charitable giving exists, less research has focused on why donors give internationally or to “distant …
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The global philanthropist: A qualitative donor analysis of international charitable giving in America
… causes through education, language, travel, and charitable solicitation from a trusted individual. Diaspora giving is also a significant factor in international charitable giving, as is the reputation and accountability of organizations. Findings determine that new international donors can be …
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The Economics Of Individual Philanthropy: Essays On Religiosity, And Charitable Giving By Married Couples
… through two essays on religiosity and charitable giving by married couples. The second chapter examines whether people who engage in religious activities are more generous in terms of both religious and secular giving and whether gender differences exist in charitable giving within …
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Volunteerism and Charitable Giving among the Millennial Generation: How to Attract and Retain Millennials
<p> <p>Nonprofit organizations play an important role in today’s society. These organizations provide support to many in need and fill voids left by the governmental services. For nonprofit organizations to work efficiently and effectively, these organizations need to be able to attract and retain …
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Charitable giving and federal income tax policy: additional evidence based on panel-data elasticity estimates
Nearly all traditional charitable-giving studies conclude donors are more responsive to price-reducing charitable deductions (the price effect) than they are to income-reducing tax payments (the income effect). Thus, taxes stimulate giving. In addition, this empirical evidence also indicates that …
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Lonely Consumers: When, How, and Why Does Loneliness Influence Consumer Behavior?
… contexts, nostalgic product consumption and charitable giving by focusing on how consumers cope with loneliness through consumption. In Experiments 4-5, I demonstrate that consumers who lack cognitive resources tend to form positive attitudes toward nostalgic products when experiencing …
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Three Essays in Behavioral Economics and Macroeconomics: Unraveling Celebrity Influence on Philanthropy, Racial Disparities in Donation Decisions During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia
… chapters. Two delve into behavioral aspects of charitable donations during the COVID-19 pandemic, investigating celebrity influence and racial disparities, as well as risk preferences. The third chapter shifts to macroeconomics, examining the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) …
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Three essays on special donation types
Much research has been conducted on charitable giving where it is analyzed as a single, undifferentiated philanthropic transfer concept, but relatively less research has explored factors associated with special donation types such as 1) bequests, 2) lifetime donations to specific cause types, or 3) …
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From Macro to Micro: A Study of the Impact of Stock Market Development and Behavioral Factors on Charitable Donations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
… area. Chapter 2: The Impact of Celebrities on Charitable Donations: A Controlled Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic The paper investigates the effectiveness of celebrity endorsements on charitable giving during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants' donation decisions were compared after exposure …
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ESSAYS ON CUSTOMER ANALYTICS IN MOBLIE ECOSYSTEMS
… little attention within the mobile context – charitable giving and cause marketing. I study how mobile devices may be used to encourage charitable giving through cause marketing campaign by conducting a large-scale randomized field experiment, focusing on the influence of push notifications, …
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Motivated to Attack: Consumer Aggression Against Brands and Other Consumers
… “Retributive Philanthropy” as a form of charitable giving motived by a desire to punish wrongdoers, rather than as an altruistically or status motivated act. In Essay 2, I introduce “Offensive Consumption” as a form of consumption wherein consumers actively desire to offend others with …
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Major Donor Philanthropy and the Effects of Social Capital
… study is an in-depth examination of actual charitable giving experiences described by wealthy donors. It is based on interviews with 32 wealthy major donors who gave 5-7 figure donations to large nonprofit organizations in Chicago, Illinois. Areas examined include giving determinants, donor …
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Does doing good, do good : an investigation into SRI fund performance in South Africa
… rethinking profit distribution (dividends versus charitable giving and environmental campaigns) and convincing the business world that a corporate conscience can pay. With regards to gaining evidence of the financial benefits of SRI compared to conventional portfolios, no greater clarity was …
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An Examination of Digital Nativity, Generation, and Gender in Online Giving
Charitable giving has been of great interest to marketing academics because of its importance in understanding the relationships between nonprofit organizations and their customers. The concept of motivation is vital to researchers because authors have long queried about why a donor decides to give …
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Feasibility study of using blockchain to improve transparency and trust in the charity industry
… many features that could potentially transform charitable giving and aid distribution by enhancing transparency, reducing costs through disintermediation, and enabling new mechanisms for monitoring and tracking charities' impact. Trust and transparency are closely linked in the charity industry, …
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Three essays in public economics
… experiment to study the impact of choice in charitable giving; in this experiment half of the recipients of a newsletter from a Dutch NGO were able to choose what program area their donation would be spent on. There is no difference in either mean response rates or mean donation amounts …
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Educating Lyon’s poor : children, charity, and commerce in the seventeenth century
… écoles de charité as part of a wider impulse of charitable giving spurred by the Catholic Reformation, little work exists on the schools’ specific dynamics or on the relationship to the state and community embedded in the routine life of these schools. Additionally, this project uses “childhood” …
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Giving alone: towards an understanding of the practices and motivations of American Evangelical Millennial philanthropy
The giving of financial resources by American Evangelical Christians to further the development of the church and society has been a defining characteristic of this group for many generations. However, that legacy appears to be in jeopardy as the rising Millennial generation, those born in the …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
… but the exact neural mechanism of charitable giving remains unknown. In our experiment, participants allocate money between themselves and a charity in a graphical revealed preference task, that measures both parameterized other-regarding preferences and economic rationality …
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