Insuring Your Donation An Experiment

An increasing fraction of donations is channeled through donation intermediaries. These enti-ties serve multiple purposes, one of which seems to be providing donors with greater certainty: that the donation reaches its intended goal, and that the donor may be sure to get a tax ben-efit. We interpret this function as insurance and test the option to insure donations in the lab. Our participants indeed have a positive willingness to pay for insurance against either risk. Yet the insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the un-certainty affects the proper use of their donation

<i>Commission</i> 34. (Solar Parallax.)

In adopting the Draft Report as drawn up by the President of the Commission the meeting recorded its indebtedness to Dr Spencer Jones for his labour in framing it.It was resolved to request the executive committee to make a grant of 2500 Swiss francs annually to the Solar Parallax Commission until the next meeting of the Union.Prof. Kopff regretted that the results of the meridian observations made at Besançon and Rome could not be used in the formation of the Catalogue of Primary Reference Stars as these were received too late for inclusion.</jats:p