Often tobacco industry activities may appear as public good activities, while actually inconspicuously working to undermine tobacco control efforts. It is important to be wary of any use of logos or mascots as well as secondary products used to promote smoking (e.g. logos on sports equipment). Although sponsorships may appear positive, it may work to change perceptions of tobacco use or the tob...

Can an increase in male wages make the woman in the family, or even the whole family, worse off? On the face of it, this seems paradoxical, since the overall resources of the household are improved by the wage increase. This paper shows that the chain reactions set in motion by such a wage increase in labor markets can end up by making not only the woman but the whole family worse off because o...

This article develops a new model of altruism called impact philanthropy. An impact philanthropist is someone who wants to personally ‘make a difference.’ While that motive is straightforward, its logical implications are significantly different from other models of philanthropy. For example, the contributions of other donors can reduce an impact philanthropist’s charitable fulfillment. As a re...

This paper studies households making joint decisions about two tax-deductible activities: charitable giving and paying interest on home equity lines of credit (HELOC). By allowing for interactions, either substitutability or complementarity, between deductions, I provide a fuller understanding of the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) and the tax-price elasticity of charitable giving. The tax-p...

Nonprofits address some of the world's most pressing problems, and many rely on donations to fund their essential work. Nonprofit marketers are, therefore, tasked with promoting charitable giving. Research giving has largely focused identifying characteristics that make people generous but generated inconsistent findings, suggesting important moderators are not well understood. Moreover, there ...

The experience of Ukrainian medical, cultural-educational, children’s-youth, charitable, religious, and other public orga­ni­zations Galicia in the late XIX – 30s XX century, which created effective forms, means mass medical education informal education, is analyzed. activities Medical Society, Hygienic “Medical Community” are highlighted. main forms characterized. role students, teachers, prie...