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Individual Charitable Donation and Household Spending
Ang, James S. - 2013
fraction of household income spent on cash contribution has also declined during the same period. We examine the factors behind …
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Individualism, Economic Freedom, and Charitable Giving
Cai, Meina; Caskey, Greg; Cowen, Nick; Murtazashvili, Ilia - 2021
We investigate the role of individualistic social rules and norms in charitable giving. Individualism in market societies is often criticized as corrupting morality and discouraging charitable giving. We contest that view. We propose direct and indirect mechanisms through which that occurs. In...
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The Evolving Distribution of Giving in the United States
Duquette, Nicolas - 2019
This paper computes the share of all household giving accounted for by the American households donating the largest amounts over the 1960–2012 period. The share of donations accounted for by a minority of top donors has risen sharply over this period. This rising concentration is driven by...
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Presidential Approval Crowds Out Charitable Donations
Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Melios, Georgios - 2022
A large literature in public economics seeks to answer whether government activity crowds out charitable donations. The empirical evidence is mixed, however, and prior estimates range from large crowding out effects to small crowding in effects. To resolve this inconsistency, we consider that...
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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2012
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of …
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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the IOWA-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855644
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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071089
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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854233
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600647
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600858