This lecture was given at the University of Minho by Richard Blundell, who was awarded the Cátedra Professor Carlos Lloyd Braga honorary chair in 2013.
The authors present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor.
In large-scale fundraising campaigns based on direct mailings, typically less than 5% of individuals donate to the charitable cause. The authors present evidence from two field experiments designed to measure the existence of transaction costs that inhibit charitable giving in such fundraising campaigns, and shed light on the nature of such transaction costs.
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours, and non-participation in employment.
This paper uses microeconomic data from the U.K. Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages.
