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    Deadlines, Procrastination, and Inattention in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment 

    Knowles, Stephen; Servátka, Maroš; Sullivan, Trudy
    We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either ...
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    Measuring aid effectively in tests of aid effectiveness 

    Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen
    In the extensive empirical literature on aid effectiveness, aid is always measured as a share of GDP. However, measuring aid in real dollars per capita is also consistent with standard growth theory. We show that the choice ...
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    Which Institutions are Good for Your Health? The Deep Determinants of Comparative Cross-country Health Status 

    Knowles, Stephen; Owen, P. Dorian
    We extend the literature on the deep determinants of economic development by focusing on life expectancy, instead of income per capita, as an indicator of economic development, and by examining the role of informal, as ...
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    Quantifying compliance costs of small businesses in New Zealand 

    Alexander, W Robert J; Bell, John D; Knowles, Stephen
    This paper reports on a small-scale study of the compliance costs of small New Zealand businesses. Participating firms were asked to keep a record of both time spent and expenditure directly incurred over a thirteen-week ...
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    Does Aid Work for the Poor? 

    McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; Knowles, Stephen
    This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the ...
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    Dire Straits v The Cure: Emphasising the Problem or the Solution in Charitable Fundraising for International Development 

    Clark, Jeremy; Garces-Ozanne, Arlene; Knowles, Stephen
    We conduct a laboratory experiment to test the effect on charitable donations to international development NGOs (INGOs) of emphasising current deprivation in a developing country, versus emphasising the potential good a ...
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    Does Charity Begin at Home or Overseas? 

    Knowles, Stephen; Sullivan, Trudy
    We conduct a field experiment to analyse whether a representative sample of the population has a preference for giving money to an international development charity or to a charity helping families in need in the home ...
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    Inequality and economic growth: The empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data 

    Knowles, Stephen
    All of the recent empirical work on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth has used inequality data that are not consistently measured. This paper argues that this is inappropriate and shows that ...
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    How Close to Home Does Charity Begin? 

    Brown, Pike; Grimson, Duncan; Knowles, Stephen
    This paper uses a field experiment to analyse the extent to which people are more inclined to support a charity focused on people or causes in their own region, compared to regions in other parts of the country. New Zealand ...
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    In Search of Effective Altruists 

    Genç, Murat; Knowles, Stephen; Sullivan, Trudy
    The effective altruism movement argues that people wanting to do the most good they can should donate to charities fighting poverty in poor countries overseas, rather than to charities helping people in need in wealthy ...
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