We conduct a representative dictator game in which students and random members of the community chose both what charity to support and how much to donate to the charity. We find systematic differences between the choices of students and community members. Community members are much more likely to write in their own charity, community members donate significantly more ($17), on average, and comm...

Charities frequently announce contributions of donors as they accrue. Doing so induces donors to play a sequential-move rather than simultaneous-move game. We examine the conditions under which a charity prefers such sequential play. It is known that if donors only value contributions through their effect on the total provision of a public good, then the charity will not announce contributions ...

Estimates of charity care expenditures provide a quantitative measure of hospitals' commitment to expanding access to the medically uninsured in their communities but fail to provide information about the subset of uninsured who benefit or the gaps in public insurance programs' coverage that are filled by these charity care programs. This brief provides an overview of a study, conducted for the...

The article is devoted to the study of welfare state as a condition for emergence and development charity in Ukraine, because charitable activity conditions transformational challenges have become an important part social legal life. During research, theoretical analysis, synthesis, systematization current documents method theoretical-structural refinement conceptual apparatus were applied. Soc...

background: sleep is an essential part of life. lack of sleep has been linked with increased morbidity and mortality. the objective of this study was to determine the sleep quality of older adults residing in a private elderly care institution in malaysia. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was conducted among consenting residents of a 200-bed non-governmental charity old folks h...