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Alumni Financial Donations, Life Cycle and Student Activities
… public university covering a 36 year period of donations. Potential donors were defined as having participated in university-sponsored activities as a student. Key characteristics studied geographical (residential) proximity to campus, gender and college in which the alumni graduated from the …
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Corneal donations in South Africa: a 15-year review
… There is little published data on corneal donations in South Africa describing the magnitude of the current problem. Objectives: To describe trends in the number of corneal donors per year, the number of corneal transplants performed each year, the origin of corneal donors, the allocation …
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Green Behaviors in the Laboratory, Environmental Donations in the Field
Behavior within an experiment is generally explained by either a pure profit motive or a response to the context of the experiment which is likely driven by different factors such as individuals' environmental friendliness. Are participants in laboratory experiments responding to the context of the …
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Corporate Donations to Social Justice: The Influence of Board Diversity
… to donate and 2) the amount of monetary pledge donations. Findings suggest that boards with higher proportions of female directors are more likely to announce a pledge donation to address social justice than boards with less gender diversity. This study can serve as marketing guidance to …
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
… distance being the independent variable and donations being the dependent variable. The results suggested that personal distress may be mediating the relationship between local victim news and donations. One implication of this research that warrants further examination is the possibility …
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Effects of Shoe Donations on Children’s Time Allocation TOMS Shoes in El Salvador
<p>What are the impacts of TOMS shoe donations in rural El Salvador? This paper tries to answer the question by studying the changes in time allocation among children age 6 to 12 years in El Salvador. By taking advantage of a Randomized Control Trial performed between January 15, 2012 and February …
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Donations and sales of conservation easements on forestland in the Northern Forest of New York State
… of 79 forestland easements, 50 were granted as donations and the remaining 29 were granted in sales. Most forestland easement donors were individuals or related individuals. Forestland easement sellers are split between industrial owners and individuals. Eight forestland easement grantees in the …
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Tax-Deductible Donations and Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Self-Justification On Dishonest Behavior
… to evade taxes after they make tax-deductible donations, because the existence of third-party beneficiaries makes it easier for them to reconstruct and justify their conduct. Using laboratory experiments, this study will contribute to the understanding of tax evasion by showing the effects of …
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Effectiveness of students’ philanthropic donations on orphans’ academic performance: A case of Mbeya city ward secondary schools
… of various kinds of students’ philanthropic donations on academic performance of fellow students who are orphans. The study used quantitative techniques and used a written questionnaire to collect data from the students in the five schools. Key findings revealed that not only is there a …
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Nongovernmental Organizations, Formal Networks and Barrier Mitigation in Humanitarian Relief: A Case Study of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations
… the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) on its twelve NGO members. Specifically, the study addressees the following questions: 1) How does PQMD function? 2) What effects has PQMD had on its NGO members' relationships with each other, especially in the context of disaster …
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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.
… 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 to …
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The effect of political finance on corruption risk in Colombia
… risks in Colombian municipalities, focusing on donations, small donations, and financial disclosure. To that end, I seized publicly disclosed contribution-level data from the 2015 municipal elections and a novel index of institutionalized public procurement corruption risks based upon …
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Application of Social Networks to Fundraising in the Presidential Nomination Process of 2008
<p>Campaign donations are something that scholars have examined for some time, generally treating these donations as an aggregated explanatory variable. Through technological advances in computing, size is no longer a limitation that inhibits scholars from using this information in a robust manner. …
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Three essays on special donation types
… donation types such as 1) bequests, 2) lifetime donations to specific cause types, or 3) the intersection of bequests and lifetime donations to specific cause types. This dissertation provides new information addressing all three of these areas. Essay 1 explores the connection between race and …
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Economics of Social Issues
… paper which analyses the effect of corporate donations on the policy position of political parties. It is found that with a small minority supporting donors’ positions, donations can have a large effect on policy positions. Under certain circumstances, parties can collude on policy position, …
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Empathic stories to address intergroup discrimination towards undocumented Latinx Immigrants: Stories when we cannot live experiences
… in inducing transportation, influencing monetary donations to an immigrant fund, increasing ratings of warmth and competence, and inducing more positive attitudes, compared to the provision of supportive statistics. Second, the effectiveness of the enhanced stories, over statistics, in inducing …
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