Browsing by Author "Osili, Una Okonkwo"

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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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    Do Immigrants Free Ride More Than Natives?
    (2009) Osili, Una Okonkwo; Xie, Jia
    Are immigrants a burden on host societies, because they receive benefits from, but do not contribute to, the provision of public goods and services? Questions like these have shaped public debate on immigration policy in the United States and Western Europe, and have fueled a large body of research. In this paper, we investigate theoretically and empirically the implications of immigration for the private provision of public goods. We do not find evidence that immigrants free ride more than the native-born. Moreover, immigrants are less likely to receive assistance from non-government sources compared to similar native-born households.
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    Ethnic Diversity and Charitable Giving
    (2004) Okten, Cagla; Osili, Una Okonkwo
    Recent studies suggest that greater community heterogeneity will lead to lower provision of local public goods and less support for governmental income distribution programs towards the needy (Luttmer 2001). Our study analyzes how private donations to charitable organizations that help the needy are affected by greater community heterogeneity. It is important to address this question since charitable organizations are often considered to provide services that are substitutes to provisions from the government. We find that greater ethnic heterogeneity decreases both the probability and the amount an individual contributes to a charitable organization using new data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
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    Immigrant Assimilation and Charitable Giving
    (2005) Osili, Una Okonkwo; Du, Dan
    Will immigration impact economic progress and social cohesion in host countries? One indicator that can shed new light on the complex process of immigrant assimilation is charitable giving. Charitable giving and other forms of civic engagement may affect norms of trust, connectedness, and cooperative behavior. We find that immigrant status has a negative, but insignificant impact on the incidence and levels of charitable giving. There is considerable evidence that immigrants adapt rapidly to U.S. charitable institutions over time. Results on private transfers present a striking contrast. Immigrant households are significantly more likely to participate in private transfer networks.
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    Termination of NGO alliances in China : typology and determinants
    (2014-02-25) Hu, Ming; Guo, Chao, 1971-; Bies, Angela; Osili, Una Okonkwo
    In 2008, grassroots NGOs formed 13 alliances in response to the need for emergency relief and post-disaster recovery after the Sichuan Earthquake that occurred in West China and killed approximately 87,000 people. These alliances served to raise and deliver relief materials, train and supervise volunteers, promote information sharing, and assist victims with mental health and livelihood recovery. However, all alliances were terminated within less than four years. Although plenty of scholarship discusses how corporate alliances evolve or fail, few studies focus on interorganizational collaboration among nonprofits. To explore how NGOs developed collective actions in China’s adverse sociopolitical environment, the author performed three years of observation in four coalitions and interviewed 60 alliance leaders, employees, and volunteers. This paper identifies four types of termination these NGO alliances experienced: three of them failed at their very births, five self-disbanded shortly after the end of emergency aid, three dissolved due to failed institutionalization, and the remaining two evolved into independent organizations. Tracking their life cycles, this study finds four main factors accountable for their terminations: political pressure, funding shortage, short-term orientation, and leadership failure. In particular, the repressive NGO regulation regime and limited funding sources fundamentally restricted all alliances’ capacity and sustainability. Further, the transient nature of disaster relief efforts and the conflict between disaster management and planned work areas contributed to the short-term orientation among alliance members and, thus, led to the closure of some alliances shortly after they provided emergency relief. In addition, though generally exempt from internal rivalry that often undermines inter-firm partnerships, NGO alliances of all types were confronted with leadership challenges—partner misfits concerning resources, strategy, and mission; flawed governing structures, and undesired individual leadership. The four factors interplayed and led to alliance dissolution through different combinations. The paper points out that, in addition to environmental uncertainty, leadership failure has become a major challenge for nonprofit collaborations.