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Does the NEA Crowd Out Private Charitable Contributions to the Arts?

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This paper investigates the mechanism by which the federal government’s funding of the arts through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) displaces private charitable contributions to non–profit arts organizations. I estimate that private charitable contributions to arts organizations increased by 50 to 60 cents due to a major funding cut to the NEA during the mid–1990s. These increases, however, also coincided with, on average, a 25 cent increase in fund–raising expenditures by arts organizations for every dollar decrease in government grants. The estimate of crowding out found in this paper is relatively large, particularly for a study using a micro–data set. I argue that an appropriate interpretation of an estimate of a crowding–out parameter, in general, depends crucially on the context.

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  • Dokko, Jane K., 2009. "Does the NEA Crowd Out Private Charitable Contributions to the Arts?," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 62(1), pages 57-75, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ntj:journl:v:62:y:2009:i:1:p:57-75
    DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2009.1.03
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    1. Bastian Hartmann & Martin Werding, 2012. "Donating Time or Money: Are they Substitutes or Complements?," CESifo Working Paper Series 3835, CESifo.
    2. Shekhtman, Louis & Barabasi, Albert Laszlo, 2022. "Philanthropy in Art: Locality, Donor Retention, and Prestige," SocArXiv 5ebjw, Center for Open Science.
    3. Yamamura, Eiji & Tsutsui, Yoshiro & Ohtake, Fumio, 2018. "Altruistic and selfish motivations of charitable giving: The case of the hometown tax donation system (Furusato nozei) in Japan," MPRA Paper 86181, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Walter N. Thurman & Dominic P. Parker, 2011. "Crowding Out Open Space: The Effects of Federal Land Programs on Private Land Trust Conservation," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 87(2), pages 202-222.
    5. Szczepan Kosciolek, 2019. "Do sports clubs differ from other non-governmental organizations in terms of revenue sources? The case of Poland," Ekonomia i Prawo, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, vol. 18(3), pages 283-294, September.
    6. Eiji Yamamura & Yoshiro Tsutsui & Fumio Ohtake, 2017. "Altruistic and selfish motivations of charitable giving:Case of the hometown tax donation system in Japan," ISER Discussion Paper 1003, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
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    8. Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok, 2016. "A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 30(3), pages 235-248, Summer.

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