Alumni giving: The influences of reunion, class, and year

作者: Thomas R. Willemain , Anil Goyal , Mark Van Deven , Inderpreet S. Thukral

DOI: 10.1007/BF02497090

关键词: Raw dataFiscal yearActuarial scienceFund raisingHigher educationAverage sizeInstitutional researchAge differencesClass (computer programming)HistoryDemographic economicsEducation

摘要: We analyzed fifty years of inflation-adjusted data on the Annual Giving program Princeton University. Most variation in both average size gifts and percentage class giving can be explained with simple models having three factors: reunion number, identity, fiscal year. Besides providing insights into factors influencing donations, these provide a way to unmask features that are not evident raw data, such as trends behavior exceptional performances by particular classes years.

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