How Effective Are Charity Managers?: Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Bradley Minaker

Journal of Human Resources, 2021, vol. 56, issue 2, 632-654

Abstract: This paper presents the first causal evidence of the role that charity managers play in the financial performance of a charity. Using a novel data set of Canadian charities, I find that a one standard deviation increase in manager ability leads to a 0.516 standard deviation increase in total revenue, which amounts to more than $650,000. Married couples are found to have a larger effect than individuals, and female managers are shown to have a larger effect than male managers. I then present extensions that show that the baseline model overestimates the effect of the managers.

Date: 2021
Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8767R2
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