We report the results of laboratory experiments that examine whether third-party contributions crowd out private giving to charity. Subjects play a single dictator game with a charity as the recipient. The subject chooses his preferred charity from a list. There are four treatment combinations: two initial allocations and two frames. Initial allocations are either US$18 for the subject and US$2...

A cause-related auction is different from a list price setting in two major ways: First, the donation percentage directly affects the price of the item in that consumers’ value for charitable contributions enters their bids. Second, charitable consumers have a price externality on non-charitable consumers, so even a segment of consumers who place a premium on charitable contributions can signif...

OBJECTIVES To study patients' belief and practice about Sadqa (charity) and its role in recovery from illness and restoration of health. This study will determine whether such belief and practice is related to any demographic factors such as sex, education, and religious sects. METHODS A questionnaire was designed that included the demographic profile of patients and questions in accordance t...

Mr. Ward is president and CEO, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans. "W hen one door closes, another opens ." This has certainly been the experience of Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans ( D C S N O ) . When in 1992 Daughters of Charity National Health SystemWest Central Region ( D C N H S W C ) sold its Hotel Dieu Hospital in overbedded New Orleans to the state of Louisiana, ...

Charitable giving has increasingly become ‘tough love’ it has come to require recipients to undertake costly prior action. A common justification is that of greater efficiency: willingness to undertake costly actions signals greater productivity from transfers. However, there is a trade-off. Conditions impose a cost, since the activities required are by themselves welfare reducing for at least ...

Charities frequently rely on high-priced professional solicitors but donors seem unaware. To understand this, we propose an agency-based theory of fundraising. We show that trading off its incentive cost, the charity optimally hires a sufficiently "efficient" solicitor and offers him a high percentage of the donations collected, implying a high price of giving. Thus, if, as required by law, don...

«Though truth and falsehood bee Neare twins, yet truth a little older is.» I Much of the contribution of contemporary philosophy to the problem of interpretation in anthropology is not a contribution to anthropology, but to what might be called a priori anthropology (Cooper 1986). This is an armchair speculation, far from the field, about the general requirements of the interpretation of belief...