The effectiveness of private benefits in fundraising of local charities*

• Main Authors: Sieg, Holger, Zhang, Jipeng
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social and public welfare
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101559; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16787
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article provides an empirical analysis of the role that private benefits play in explaining charitable donations to large cultural and environmental organizations. We develop a multiple discrete choice model with differentiated products. We estimate the model using a unique data set of donor li...