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The Determinants Of Private Contributions And Government Grants To Nonprofit Organizations, Amanda Lori Wilsker

Economics Dissertations

The nonprofit sector is becoming increasingly important to the U.S. economy both as an employer and service provider. Although most of the sector’s revenues are earned, the ability of the nonprofit sector to generate significant levels of unearned income in the form of grants and contributions reinforces the sector’s uniqueness. This dissertation uses the NCCS-Guidestar data to address questions pertaining to the determinants of nonprofits’ contributions and government grants. Each of the essays’ findings is discussed briefly below.

The first chapter examines the relationship between an organization’s finances and the level of government grants received. Because organizations choose to apply …

Studies On The Effects Of Sympathy And Religious Education On Income Redistribution Preferences, Charitable Donations, And Law-Abiding Behavior, Roberta D. Calvet

Economics Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the impact of moral emotions (sympathy and empathy) and religious education on individual behavior. This dissertation is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter examines the effect of sympathy and empathy on tax compliance. We run a series of experiments in which we employ methods such as priming, the Davis Empathic Concern scale, and questions about frequency of prosocial behaviors in the past year in order to promote and to identify empathy and sympathy in subjects. We observe the subjects’ decisions in a series of one-shot tax compliance game presented at …