In this dissertation, I study the economics of the nonprofit sector. In particular, I focus on individuals’ motives to contribute to the nonprofit sector either through charitable giving or employment within the sector. \ud \ud In the first chapter, I ask: how do state lotteries designed to fund education impact overall funding available for education? I find that -- while state government net expenditures on education do not significantly increase -- charitable donations to education fall. This results in a decrease in funding available for education. The large degree of charitable crowd-out observed here (relative to other papers in the literature) seems to be driven by how aware donors are of the purported beneficiary of the lottery.\ud ...
Studies on the nonprofit pay differential find that nonprofit workers in the child daycare industry ...
The goal of our paper is to analyze the differences in terms of effort sensitivity to monetary incen...
Although the nonprofit sector is enormous, we know little about how workers there are compensated. T...
In this dissertation, I study the economics of the nonprofit sector. In particular, I focus on indiv...
My dissertation is a collection of essays on topics in public economics. In particular, the essays e...
This dissertation studies how charities' receipts and expenses respond to developments in the commun...
Nonprofit scholars and practitioners have been concerned about nonprofit commercialization, increase...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015The predominant objective of this dissertation is the ...
This dissertation uses public-use data to examine the ways in which nonprofits respond to informatio...
In my master thesis in economics, I draw attention to nonprofits with core focus on the ones that ar...
Little is known about wage determination and the distribution of wages, or wage structure, in nonpro...
textThis dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public econ...
A large part of the total charitable giving (approximately 70%) in the United States come from indiv...
The nonprofit sector is becoming increasingly important to the U.S. economy both as an employer and ...
PoliticalEconomyThe nonprofit sector’s ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the...
Studies on the nonprofit pay differential find that nonprofit workers in the child daycare industry ...
The goal of our paper is to analyze the differences in terms of effort sensitivity to monetary incen...
Although the nonprofit sector is enormous, we know little about how workers there are compensated. T...
In this dissertation, I study the economics of the nonprofit sector. In particular, I focus on indiv...
My dissertation is a collection of essays on topics in public economics. In particular, the essays e...
This dissertation studies how charities' receipts and expenses respond to developments in the commun...
Nonprofit scholars and practitioners have been concerned about nonprofit commercialization, increase...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015The predominant objective of this dissertation is the ...
This dissertation uses public-use data to examine the ways in which nonprofits respond to informatio...
In my master thesis in economics, I draw attention to nonprofits with core focus on the ones that ar...
Little is known about wage determination and the distribution of wages, or wage structure, in nonpro...
textThis dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public econ...
A large part of the total charitable giving (approximately 70%) in the United States come from indiv...
The nonprofit sector is becoming increasingly important to the U.S. economy both as an employer and ...
PoliticalEconomyThe nonprofit sector’s ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the...
Studies on the nonprofit pay differential find that nonprofit workers in the child daycare industry ...
The goal of our paper is to analyze the differences in terms of effort sensitivity to monetary incen...
Although the nonprofit sector is enormous, we know little about how workers there are compensated. T...