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Charitable Giving by Married Couples Revisited

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This paper investigates the effect of gender differences and household bargaining on charitable giving. I replicate the study of Andreoni, Brown, and Rischall (2003) using a different data set—the recently available Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) supplement on charitable giving—and test the sensitivity of their results to inclusion of additional control variables and the endogeneity of the tax price of giving. First, focusing on singles, I find that males and females have significantly different tendencies toward giving to different areas of charitable activity. Next, comparing households in which husband and wife make a joint decision on donations with those in which couples separately decide or assign a sole decision-maker, I show that bargaining over giving increases the amount of charitable contributions by almost 7 percent.

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  • Bari K. Yörük, 2010. "Charitable Giving by Married Couples Revisited," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 45(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:45:y:2010:i2:p497-516
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    2. sarah Brown & Mark N Harris & Karl Taylor, 2010. "Modelling Charitable Donations: A Latent Class Panel Approach," Working Papers 2010017, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2010.
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    4. Wei Yang, 2016. "Are contributions of time and money substitutes or complements?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(37), pages 3526-3537, August.

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