Does charitable giving respond to new demands, and if so, does the response come at the expense of other charitable causes? To answer these questions we exploit exogenous variation in need arising from the random event of a nearby tornado. We use location fixed effects estimators and examine changes in charitable donations claimed for tax deductions in IRS data on individual income taxes by geo...

The funding of recreational trails in publicly accessible nature areas is a prevailing challenge for the development tourism destinations. In some cases, mandatory fees are neither ideologically nor legally supported, meaning that local stakeholders reliant on voluntary contributions trail users. light motivational barriers and uncertainties hinder recreationists from donating, we tested behavi...

In this paper we present a lab-in-the-field experiment with large and diverse sample to compare charitable donations when individuals decide for themselves only they as group representative. contrast the previous literature, find that make greater contributions representative than alone. This result demonstrates being responsible does not always lead more selfish behavior.

CONTEXT Drug donations to developing countries may be part of medical relief operations in acute emergencies, development aid in non-emergency situations, or a corporate donations programme. After a number of documented inappropriate drug donations, the World Health Organization developed the 'Guidelines for Drug Donations', with the second and final version published in 1999. OBJECTIVES We r...

BACKGROUND Each country faces a continuing challenge to collect enough blood to meet the national needs. According to WHO, there should be at least 20 blood donations per 1,000 population for developing countries, in Kazakhstan this indicator was only 16.8 in 2011. Thus, we conducted an epidemiological assessment and drew a map of the regional distribution of blood and plasma donations in Kazak...

OBJECTIVE Comprehensive school health (CSH) is increasingly receiving renewed interest as a strategy to improve health and learning. The present study estimates the costs associated with implementing and maintaining CSH. METHODS We reviewed the accounting information of all schools in the Annapolis Valley Health Promoting Schools (AVHPS) program in 2008/2009. We considered support for nutriti...