Individual decision making and organizational positioning
1. Individual Decision Making and
Organizational Positioning
A Test of Crowding-Out in the Dutch Voluntary Sector
Arjen
de
Wit
43rd
ARNOVA
Annual
Conference
November
21,
2014,
Denver,
CO
2. ShiBing
policies
• Budget
cuts
• ‘Big
Society’
(UK)
• ‘Do-‐democracy’
(Netherlands)
• ‘ParPcipaPon
society’
(Netherlands)
• What
are
the
consequences
for
nonprofits?
4. The
crowding-‐out
hypothesis
• If
government
increase
subsidies
with
$1,
private
donaPons
decrease
with
$1
• Like
a
waterbed
5. What’s
the
evidence?
De
Wit,
A.
&
Bekkers,
R.
‘
Government
Support
and
Charitable
DonaPons:
A
Meta-‐Analysis
of
the
Crowding-‐Out
Hypothesis’.
Submi`ed
to
Public
Administra0on
Review.
6. Valid
tesPng?
• Laboratory
experiments
in
which
undergraduate
students
don’t
decide
over
their
own
money,
are
aware
of
parPcipaPng
in
research
and
have
full
informaPon
• Aggregate
measures
of
nonprofit
revenue
sources
8. Why
would
we
expect
crowding-‐out?
• Individuals
change
their
giving
decision
• Organiza0ons
posiPon
themselves
differently
in
the
nonprofit
market
9. Individual
behavior
• DonaPng
has
public
and
private
benefits
• Public
benefits
can
equally
well
be
produced
by
others,
i.e.
the
state
• But…
• Do
people
know
about
subsidies?
(Horne
et
al.
2005)
• Are
they
capable
of
changing
their
giving?
• And
do
they
value
the
public
benefits?
(Andreoni
1989,
1990)
10. Individual
behavior
• DonaPng
has
public
and
private
benefits
• Public
benefits
can
equally
well
be
produced
by
others,
i.e.
the
state
• But…
• Do
people
know
about
subsidies?
(Horne
et
al.
2005)
• Are
they
capable
of
changing
their
giving?
• And
do
they
value
the
public
benefits?
(Andreoni
1989,
1990)
11. Individual
behavior
• DonaPng
has
public
and
private
benefits
• Public
benefits
can
equally
well
be
produced
by
others,
i.e.
the
state
• But…
• Do
people
know
about
subsidies?
(Horne
et
al.
2005)
• Are
they
capable
of
changing
their
giving?
• And
to
what
extent
do
they
value
public
benefits
vs.
private
benefits?
12. OrganizaPonal
posiPoning
• Nonprofit
organizaPons
have
lower
need
to
look
for
alternaPve
sources
of
income
when
government
subsidies
increase
• ‘Fundraising
crowding-‐out’
(Andreoni
&
Payne
2003,
2011)
13. OrganizaPonal
posiPoning
• Nonprofit
organizaPons
have
lower
need
to
look
for
alternaPve
sources
of
income
when
government
subsidies
increase
• ‘Fundraising
crowding-‐out’
(Andreoni
&
Payne
2003,
2011)
• But…
14. OrganizaPonal
posiPoning
• Nonprofit
organizaPons
have
lower
need
to
look
for
alternaPve
sources
of
income
when
government
subsidies
increase
• ‘Fundraising
crowding-‐out’
(Andreoni
&
Payne
2003,
2011)
• But…
• How
do
organizaPons
use
extra
revenues?
• Is
fundraising
equally
effecPve
across
persons?
15. The
current
data
• Giving
in
the
Netherlands
Panel
Study
(GINPS)
– Change
in
donaPons
between
two
years
– N
=
1,879
• Central
Bureau
on
Fundraising
(CBF)
– Change
in
government
subsidies
between
two
years
(lagged)
– 17
organizaPons
16. Results
Linear regression on Δ
Dona'ons
Δ
Subsidies
Media
coverage
*
Δ
Subsidies
Higher
educated
*
Δ
Subsidies
Paid
job
*
Δ
Subsidies
Own
home
*
Δ
Subsidies
Private
benefit
*
Δ
Subsidies
(Constant)
17. Increases
in
subsidies
are
followed
by
increases
in
donaPons…
Linear regression on Δ
Dona'ons
Δ
Subsidies
0.831
**
Media
coverage
*
Δ
Subsidies
Higher
educated
*
Δ
Subsidies
Paid
job
*
Δ
Subsidies
Own
home
*
Δ
Subsidies
Private
benefit
*
Δ
Subsidies
(Constant)
-‐
0.110
18. …irrespecPve
of
whether
they
are
reported
in
newspapers…
Linear regression on Δ
Dona'ons
Δ
Subsidies
0.831
**
-‐
0.128
Media
coverage
*
Δ
Subsidies
0.964
Higher
educated
*
Δ
Subsidies
Paid
job
*
Δ
Subsidies
Own
home
*
Δ
Subsidies
Private
benefit
*
Δ
Subsidies
(Constant)
-‐
0.110
-‐
0.915
19. …and
more
strongly
among
the
higher
educated.
Linear regression on Δ
Dona'ons
Δ
Subsidies
0.831
**
-‐
0.128
1.155
(*)
Media
coverage
*
Δ
Subsidies
0.964
Higher
educated
*
Δ
Subsidies
0.748
*
Paid
job
*
Δ
Subsidies
0.019
Own
home
*
Δ
Subsidies
-‐
0.203
Private
benefit
*
Δ
Subsidies
-‐
0.136
(Constant)
-‐
0.110
-‐
0.915
-‐
4.262
**
20. Increases
in
subsidies
are
followed
by
increases
in
fundraising
spending…
Linear regression on Δ
Fundraising
Δ
Subsidies
0.022
**
(Constant)
0.116
**
21. …but
this
cannot
explain
the
relaPon
between
subsidies
and
donaPons.
Linear regression on Δ
Dona'ons
Δ
Subsidies
0.831
**
0.771
**
0.774
**
Δ
Fundraising
spending
2.783
**
4.401
*
Asked
*
Δ
Fundraising
spending
-‐
2.270
(Constant)
-‐
0.110
-‐
0.434
-‐
1.462
(*)