Alumni Giving: The Influences of Reunion, Class, and Year

We analyzed fifty years of inflation-adjusted data on the Annual Giving program of Princeton University. Most of the variation in both average size of gifts and percentage of class giving can be explained with simple models having three factors: reunion number, class identity, and fiscal year. Besid...

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Hauptverfasser: Willemain, Thomas R., Goyal, Anil, Van Deven, Mark, Thukral, Inderpreet S.
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Alumni
Analytical forecasting
Charitable giving
Confidence interval
Donations
Donors
Economic forecasting models
Financial gifts
Fund Raising
Fundraising
Higher Education
Institutional Research
Logarithms
Princeton University NJ
Private Financial Support
Reunions
Universities
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