Arbeitspapier

Donations to US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: How (Un-)Informed Are Private Donors?

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 72

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
Foreign Aid
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
Thema
non-governmental organizations
specialization
private donations
informed choices
price of giving
option to designate

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Nunnenkamp, Peter
Öhler, Hannes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
(wo)
Göttingen
(wann)
2011

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Nunnenkamp, Peter
  • Öhler, Hannes
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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