background: increasing cost of cancer in the world and particularly in developing countries, postulates need for public participation in cancer control activities, including prevention, treatment and supportive care. we studied role of different factors on the success of advertising through short message services (sms) for public donations for cancer control activities. materials and methods: b...

We experimentally study the transparency effect of alternative campaign finance systems on donations, election outcomes, policy choices, and welfare. Three alternatives are considered: one where donors’ preferences and donations are unobserved by the candidate and public; one where they are observed by the candidate but not the public; and one where they are observed by all. We label them full ...

after the start of the iraqi imposed war against iran, due to the inexperience of the iranian military forces in the field of supporting and engineering, the reconstruction jihad [jihad-e sazandegi]which had been created after the victory of islamic revolution through a decree of imam khomeini to develop the rural areas and eliminate the deprivation therein and also had done some valuable works...

Public procurement markets are worth 10–15% of global GDP. Recent empirical evidence suggests that firms’ political donations can induce important distortions in the allocation public contracts. In this article, we employ a non-parametric efficiency model to study implications such for regional governments’ efficiency. Using unique dataset covering Czech regions over 2007–2017 period, find good...

This article examines voluntary provision of a public good that is motivated, in part, to compensate for activities that diminish the public good. Markets for environmental offsets, such as those that promote carbon neutrality, provide an increasingly salient example. An important result is that mean donations do not converge to zero as the economy grows large. The equilibrium is solved to show...

Many public goods are supported with both private and public funding. It is often argued that public funding, based on taxes, crowds out private philanthropic contributions. Agents respond to increases in taxes by decreasing their donations. However, the tax level depends on the political equilibrium arising from agents’ voting decisions. In this paper we analyze a variety of motivations for vo...

Prior research indicates that donations respond to price and income effects as well as to alternative sources of nonprofit financing. Using a database of confidential nonprofit tax returns, we examine the effects of nonprofits’ taxable activities on the supply of donations. We find that each additional dollar of taxable revenues crowds-out approximately $0.55 of donations to arts, culture, and ...

We examine the e¤ect of ambiguity in symmetric games with aggregate external-ities. We …nd that ambiguity will increase/decrease the equilibrium strategy in games withstrategic complements/substitutes and positive externalities. These e¤ects are reversed ingames with negative externalities. We consider some economic applications of these resultsto Cournot oligopoly, bargaining, ...

Assigning a subjective value to a contribution to a public good often requires reflection. For many reasons, this reflection may be put off, reinforcing the underprovision of public goods. We hypothesise that nudging individuals to reflect on whether to contribute to a public good leads to the formation of issue-specific altruistic preferences. The hypothesis is tested in a large-scale field ex...