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| Title: | | Donations to US based NGOs in international development cooperation: How (un-)informed are private donors?  |
| Authors: | | Nunnenkamp, Peter Öhler, Hannes |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Kiel Working Papers 1680 |
| Abstract: | | Apart from scaling up foreign aid by NGOs, informed choices of private donors could also encourage an efficient and targeted use of NGO funds in international development cooperation. We assess the determinants of private donations across a large sample of US based NGOs with foreign aid activities. OLS and 2SLS estimations indicate that donors hardly make use of publicly available information on NGO characteristics, notably the 'price of giving' and the degree of specialization, when deciding on donations. They rather rely on the frequently offered option to designate donations to preferred purposes - even though this behavior would be rational only under conditions that are unlikely to hold. |
| Subjects: | | Non-governmental organizations specialization private donations informed choices price of giving option to designate |
| JEL: | | L31 F35 D80 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economists Online Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Kieler Arbeitspapiere, IfW
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