The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to … income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage … exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched with donations from a large workplace charitable drive where …

(which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be …Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …

fraction of household income spent on cash contribution has also declined during the same period. We examine the factors behind … in the proportion of total contribution attributed to individuals. The household spending on cash contribution is …

sensitive to warm glow (“impure altruism”) depends on her income level. While the presence of “warm glow” feelings would seem to … motivated only by pure altruism will work at a relatively high wage for the for-profit firm and then make charitable … clearly benefit charitable organizations, we show that impure altruism can create distortions in labor market choices. In some …

From 1917 to 2012, donations by high-income households in the USA have moved inversely with income inequality. This … association contradicts historical narratives and prevailing theory, both of which that imply that high-income households donate … rising income shares when inequality increases. The negative correlation holds both unconditionally and after conditioning on …

Prozent des gesamten Spendenaufkommens auf. Relativ zu ihrem verfügbaren Einkommen spenden sie allerdings weniger als die … unteren Einkommensgruppen. Jedoch ist die steuerliche Begünstigung bei niedrigen Einkommen weitaus geringer als bei hohen, da …

households contribute 37 percent of total donations, they donate less than the poorer income groups relative to their disposable … volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3 billion euros in 2019, despite the fact that fewer individuals donated …-economic analyses of SOEP data show that income has a clear influence on donation behavior. Although the richest ten percent of …

Prozent des gesamten Spendenaufkommens auf. Relativ zu ihrem verfügbaren Einkommen spenden sie allerdings weniger als die … unteren Einkommensgruppen. Jedoch ist die steuerliche Begünstigung bei niedrigen Einkommen weitaus geringer als bei hohen, da …

Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the …