TY - JOUR T1 - How Effective Are Charity Managers? JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 632 LP - 654 DO - 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8767R2 VL - 56 IS - 2 AU - Bradley Minaker Y1 - 2021/03/31 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/632.abstract N2 - 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. ER -