Participation in Philanthropic Activities: Donating Money and Time

Bryant, W. Keith; Jeon–Slaughter, Haekyung; Kang, Hyojin; Tax, Aaron

doi:10.1023/a:1022626529603

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“…Religion is also an important aspect of charitable giving. Among donors, 44% regularly attend religious services 11 . Figure 1, panel A plots the propensity to give and the amount of money contributioned for different age groups.…”

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“…Female and male giving 11 Almost 52% of households give to both religious and non-religious charities, with a mean donation of $1,391 to religions. patterns are similar for different age groups, but with some differences.…”

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“…The existing literature offers two distinct answers to this question. On the one hand, Freeman (1993Freeman ( , 1997 and Bryant et. al.…”

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How responsive are charitable donors to requests to give?

Yörük

2009

Journal of Public Economics

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People tend to contribute to a charity only when they are asked to. Although this so-called 'power of asking' is a well-known technique among fundraisers, the existing literature does not pay much attention to the role of donation requests in charitable giving. We estimate the causal effects of charitable solicitations on both the propensity to give and the amount of charitable contributions using a unique data set, which was designed to measure the giving behavior in the United States. In order to address the endogeneity of the donation requests due to non-random solicitation of charitable donors, we link this data set to IRS data on charitable organizations and the 2000 Census and propose identifying instruments. After controlling for the endogeneity, we find that people are both more likely to contribute to a charity and also donate more when they are asked to. This effect is robust under different specifications and with different sets of instruments and is much larger compared with the estimates of univariate models. Furthermore, we argue that some identifiable characteristics of individuals are associated with the higher probability of being solicited. In particular, we find some evidence that income, age, education, and race play significant roles in explaining the selection of potential charitable donors.

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How responsive are charitable donors to requests to give?

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2009

Journal of Public Economics

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“…The extant research has looked at the individual characteristics of donors as well as those in households -examining how gender, education, income, age, race, and marital status affect charitable giving behavior (e.g., Belfi eld and Beney, 2000 ;Conley, 2000 ;Andreoni et al ., 2003 ;Bryant et al ., 2003 ;Rooney et al , 2005 ;Mesch et al ., 2006 ). Very little research exists, however, as to the charitable giving decision-making process itself. "…”

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Who Decides in Giving to Education? A Study of Charitable Giving by Married Couples

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2007

Int J Educ Adv

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Using data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study and the Panel Study on Income Dynamics, we analyzed whether husbands or wives were more likely to determine whether and how much money to donate to educational institutions. Among donor households, we are able to examine what socio-economic-demographic factors explain differences in whether men or women are more likely to decide to give to educational institutions. We also compare the

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“…It is generally acknowledged that these demographic variables affect social and/or human capital and it has been shown that an individual's social and human capital is associated with volunteering behaviour (Bryant et al, 2003). However, studies that adopt a functional approach to volunteerism tend not to consider demographic variables.…”

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