The size and distribution of donations: Effects of numbers of potential recipients
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- Robin Hogarth & Emre Soyer, 2010. "The Size and Distribution of Donations: Effects of Numbers of Potential Recipients," Working Papers 517, Barcelona School of Economics.
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Keywords
choice overload; donation decisions; fairness; equality; equity. leex;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2010-11-27 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
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