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Richard Steinberg
Researcher at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Publications - 30
Citations - 2604
Richard Steinberg is an academic researcher from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public good & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 30 publications receiving 2526 citations.
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The nonprofit sector : a research handbook
TL;DR: The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive, comprehensive, cross-disciplinary perspective on nonprofit organizations and their role and function in society, as well as with the changing interests and needs of students, practitioners, and researchers.
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Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate economic theories of the nonprofit sector by their ability to answer what they regard as the central questions in describing the sector, formulating governmental policy towards the sector; and managing nonprofit organizations.
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The Revealed Objective Functions of Nonprofit Firms
TL;DR: This article proposed a method to infer a nonprofit organization's objective function by estimating the marginal donative product of its fundraising, based on Hildreth and Houck's (1968) random coefficients model, and showed that welfare, education, and arts firms are "service maximizers", that health firms are budget maximizers, and that the objective of research firms cannot be ascertained within the family of objective functions considered.
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Reward structures in public good experiments
Martin Sefton,Richard Steinberg +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that donor confusion over the Nash concept and coordination problems explain at most a small portion of the ‘excessive' giving observed in those previous experiments that use an interior Nash design.
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Labor Economics and the Nonprofit Sector: A Literature Review
TL;DR: The economics literature on nonprofit utilization of employees and volunteers is reviewed and synthesized in this paper, along with inter actions between gifts of time and of money and the economic value of volunteer labor.