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Browsing Academic Studies by Author "Ackerman, Jacqueline"

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    3 takeaways from Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott teaming up to fund women’s and girls’ causes
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2021-08-05) Skidmore, Tessa; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    4 new findings shed light on crowdfunding for charity
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2021-06-04) Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Charitable Giving in Married Couples: Untangling the Effects of Education and Income on Spouses’ Giving
    (Sage, 2022) Mesch, Debra J.; Osili, Una Okonkwo; Dale, Elizabeth J.; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; O’Connor, Heather A.; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    This research note looks beyond the unitary household model and analyzes the influence of household resources by gender on charitable giving. We investigate the intrahousehold variables of income and education and their effects on giving behaviors in married couples. We use data from the longitudinal Philanthropy Panel Study (2005–2017) to examine how spouses’ income and educational differences affect charitable giving behaviors and introduce fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity. Initially, we find a positive relationship between both the husband’s and wife’s earned and unearned incomes and the likelihood and amount of giving by married couples. However, when fixed effects are used, we find women’s earned income to be significantly associated with all forms of giving, showing that women’s labor market earnings disproportionately influence giving behavior. Education is less of a factor in whether couples give and influences giving only when the husband has more education than the wife.
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    Economic Effects on Million Dollar Giving
    (2014-12) Osili, Una; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Li, Yannan
    This study investigates the impact of economic factors on the number of charitable gifts of one million dollars or more within the United States using the Million Dollar List dataset. We investigate key donor groups: individuals, corporations, and foundations. Results indicate that individual donors are particularly responsive to underlying economic conditions; giving by foundations tends to be counter-cyclical, and corporate giving is not significantly associated with macroeconomic factors. We also find that economic conditions vary in their influence on giving to subsectors, and gifts to public benefit and human services organizations increase significantly during periods of recession. Findings from our study have direct implications for philanthropists, fundraisers, and policy makes as they seek to understand how economic conditions impact large gifts.
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    Less than 2% of all US giving supports women’s and girls’ charities
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2021-10-29) Skidmore, Tessa; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Most couples still make decisions together when they give money to charity – but it’s becoming less common
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2021-03-18) Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Philanthro-metrics: Mining multi-million-dollar gifts
    (PLoS, 2017-05-26) Osili, Una O.; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Kong, Chin Hua; Light, Robert P.; Börner, Katy; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    The Million Dollar List (MDL, online at http://www.milliondollarlist.org) is a compilation of publicly announced charitable donations of $1 million or more from across the United States since 2000; as of December 2016, the database contains close to 80,000 gifts made by U.S. individuals, corporations, foundations, and other grant-making nonprofit organizations. This paper discusses the unique value of the Million Dollar List and provides unique insights to key questions such as: How does distance affect giving? How do networks impact million-dollar-plus gifts? Understanding the geospatial and temporal dimensions of philanthropy can assist researchers and policymakers to better understand the role of private funding in innovation and discovery. Moreover, the results from the paper emphasize the importance of philanthropy for fueling research and development in science, the arts, environment, and health. The paper also includes the limitations of the presented analyses and promising future work.