As several cases of the disease caiiea unionypne varieri, ur r uugus Foot, have occurred under my observation and treatment in the Government Charitable Dispensary, Hissar, I subjoin the notes of a case, -which, I hope, will be interesting:? Mota, aged 45, cultivator of Faidalpore, in the Sekur Principality, was admitted into the Hissar Charitable Dispensary on the 10th of June 1876, with enorm...

This paper investigates the effects of bequest taxes and the income of children on the lifetime charitable contributions of parents. Using matched income tax records for parents and children, the results show a positive elasticity of 0.6 for contributions with respect to the tax price of bequests. The paper also finds that the income of children affects the amount that parents contribute to cha...

Gifts to charity are tax deductible for filers who itemize but not for filers who take the standard deduction. This paper investigates whether households that are likely switching from taking the standard deduction to itemizing change the timing of gifts to charity, postponing gifts from December of the year in which they take the standard deduction to January of the year in which they itemize....

Introduction Lost in the recent flurry of legal activity occasioned by corporate integration, disintegration, and scandalous episodes of managerial abuse, the law governing charitable corporations remains neglected and thoroughly muddled. Still unsettled are central issues regarding the accountability of directors and management, legal standards governing organic changes by nonprofit institutio...

The paper reports the results of two experiments in which people who first made an immoral choice were then more likely to donate to charity than those who did not. In addition, those who knew that a donation opportunity would follow the potential moral transgression were more likely to behave immorally than those who were not told of the donation option. We interpret this increase in charitabl...

Regulations to curb tax avoidance and evasion through charitable foundations have been in place since the Tax Reform Act of 1969. Newly-compiled longitudinal data makes it possible to estimate the effects of these regulations by comparing affected and unaffected foundations before and after the reform. Donations and entry dropped precipitously. Proxy variables suggest significant deterrence of ...

This research investigates the interaction between ego depletion (a state of reduced self-regulatory resources) and different types charitable message appeals upon subsequent support. Three experiments compare time donation intent actual monetary donations depleted (vs. non-depleted) individuals who have been exposed to either a self-benefit message, highlighting gains be accrued donors themsel...