Browsing by Subject "crowd-out"

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    All earned revenue is not created equal: Revenue embeddedness as a framework for exploring crowding-in/crowding-out effects
    (2021) Levine Daniel, Jamie
    Nonprofit organizations increasingly rely on earned revenue to sustain their mission-driven activities. Previous research examining the effects of earned revenue on other income streams tends to study earned revenue in the aggregate. Using panel data from 12,372 organizations from 2010-2015, this analysis uses a framework of revenue embeddedness to link earned revenue activities to mission and analyze the effects of earned revenue activities on donations. Earned revenue activities offering new products or services to existing donors appear to complement individual donations. These findings have theoretical and practical applications related to how nonprofits pursue earned revenue.
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    Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
    (American Economic Association, 2017-11) Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Vesterlund, Lise; Xie, Huan; Economics, School of Liberal Arts
    Researchers measure crowd-out around one level of charity output to identify whether giving is motivated by altruism and/or warm-glow. However, crowd-out depends on output, implying first that the power to reject pure altruism varies, and second that a single measurement of incomplete crowd-out can be rationalized by many different preferences. By instead measuring crowd-out at different output levels, we allow both for identification and for a novel and direct test of impure altruism. Using a new experimental design, we present the first empirical evidence that, consistent with impure altruism, crowd-out decreases with output.