PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Minaker, Bradley
TI  - How Effective Are Charity Managers?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8767R2
DP  - 2021 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 632--654
VI  - 56
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/632.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/632.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2021 Mar 31; 56
AB  - 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.